From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-07-22T22:52:04+09:00
Subject: Re: sysread and buffered I/O

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Tanaka Akira wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407210648370.13231@harp.ngdc.noaa.gov>,
>  "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@noaa.gov> writes:
>
>> why not
>>
>>    IO#receive
>
> It doesn't represent the difference from IO#read.
> --
> Tanaka Akira

consider


   IO.read

     actively takes characters from IO until EOF is found

   IO.receive

     passively receives any waiting characters from IO

??

-a
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