From: pete@... (Peter J. Kernan)
Date: 2001-11-03T05:08:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24196] Re: tabbendectomy, pty on OpenBSD

On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 02:55:27 +0900, ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> was ready with:
||>>>>> "P" == Peter J Kernan <pete@narya.PHYS.cwru.edu> writes:
||
||P> On Solaris (7) it just hangs.
||   
||   ["The trees are bending over", "The cows are lying down"].each {|string| 
||       PTY.spawn("cat -") do |r,w|
||          tabit = string.gsub(/ +/, "\t")
||          w.puts tabit
||          w.flush
||          foo =  r.gets.gsub(/\r\n/,"")
||          p tabit, foo
||          puts "tabbendectomy" unless foo == tabit
||       end
||   }

 thanks, no more hanging. Solaris also tabbendectomizes the data.

  Pete
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