Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: User friendly?
Message-ID: <4510@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 22:04:33 GMT
References: <887@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <2045@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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>In episode <887@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>, we
>heard c162-fe@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Jonathan Dubman) say:
>
>>I was in the CLI and did a "run diskcopy".  Diskcopy asked me to press
>>return, but because it was being run in the background, didn't accept any
>>input from my CLI.  

For programs that really need stdin and stdout to already be there, there's
IsInteractive() <- although it's not publicized as much as it should be.

For programs that need a stdin properly connected (eg not 'run' in the back-
ground) there is a quick and easy way which I saw (here?) a couple of months
ago. Perhaps the check code ought to be put into system programs that need
it, and everyone be informed of its existence. Wish I could remember exactly
what it was / who it was from!

John
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