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From: rbj@uunet.uu.net (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl keyboard processing
Message-ID: <1991May21.190550.27956@uunet.uu.net>
Date: 21 May 91 19:05:50 GMT
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tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

>make sure not to use the same handle
>for both in and out though.  this idiom is open seen:
>
>	open (TTYIN,  "</dev/tty") || die "Can't open /dev/tty" ;
>	open (TTYOUT, ">/dev/tty") || die "Can't open /dev/tty" ;

Why should different FH be used?
Does the book discuss this anywhere?

>Using octal escapes is probably easiest.

I stopped thinking in octal when I left the PDP-11 world.
Hex is where it's at Tommy me boy!

But wait! What about those new escape sequences: \e, and \c?
I still want Larry to put in \m for metachars.

This must be "Tom Bashing Week". Sorry dude!
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