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From: rsbx@cbmvax.commodore.com (Raymond S. Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Flushing pipe:
Keywords: Can it be done? How?
Message-ID: <18116@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 26 Jan 91 03:16:50 GMT
References: <292@karp.albany.edu>
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, West Chester, PA
Lines: 29

In article <292@karp.albany.edu>, hammond@cs.albany.edu (William F Hammond) writes:
> Question:
>   If I have in a shell
> 
>      type < PIPE:aa > speak:
> 
> and in *another* shell
> 
>      myprogram > PIPE:aa
> 
> are there any "control" codes that "myprogram" can send to the named
> pipe to force immediate output to "speak:" *without* breaking the connection?

Make sure that "myprogram" flushes its output to the pipe. The PIPE: device
responds to each read packet by returning whatever is currently "in the pipe"
(or less for small reads).

						rsbx

> William F. Hammond                   Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
> 518-442-4625                         SUNYA, Albany, NY 12222
> hammond@leah.albany.edu              wfh58@albnyvms.bitnet

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