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From: mer6g@virginia.edu (Marc Rouleau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Open Pipe to Interactive-only Process?
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Date: 30 Oct 90 21:25:37 GMT
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Has anyone written a routine to open a pipe to a process which
requires that its input come from a tty?  I think the fakeout
involves pseudo-terminals, but I don't know much about them and
would just as soon use someone else's code if it exists.

To be slightly more specific, I'm trying to run tip from perl
on a Sun4.  Being able to do something like

    ptyopen(TIP,"|/usr/bin/tip portb");

would be wonderful, but even if you have it in less elegant form
I would love to see your code.

    -- Marc Rouleau