From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2008-04-19T19:55:45+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the 'portable' way to do this?


On 19 Apr 2008, at 10:55, Michael Fellinger wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Xie Hanjian <jan.h.xie@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm afraid the problem is the same: you can't interact with the  
>> program
>>  after data has been read. any function like getch() will try to  
>> read input
>> from the file to which stdin was redirected instead of your console.
>
> You can check if you are getting data from a pipe by asking
> $stdin.tty? and act accordingly.
> See http://p.ramaze.net/1144 for a short example.
>
> Regarding platform compatibility, according to
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/146259
> you can $stdin.reopen("COM1:")

Make that CON: and you're on to a winner!

dev = 'CON:'
[$stdin, $stdout].each {|io| io.reopen(dev)}
puts gets

:-)

> ^ manveru