From: "Firestone, Mark - Technical Support" <mark.firestone@...>
Date: 2002-06-26T22:46:34+09:00
Subject: RE: more annoying socket questions.

Sounds good.  The documentation on this is sketchy.  Any suggestions.  

Thanks,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: ts [mailto:decoux@moulon.inra.fr]
Sent: 26 June 2002 14:35
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: more annoying socket questions.


>>>>> "F" == "Firestone, Mark <- Technical Support"
<mark.firestone@gossgraphic.co.uk>> writes:

F> How can I get my pages to work without the user having to do something at
a
F> prompt (like press return)?  In Pascal, Wayne Conrad in his IO routines
F> provided me with a way of telling if there was something in the buffer,
and
F> then reading it.  Ruby doesn't seem to do this.  Failing a way to handle
F> that, is there any way round this?

 Try to use IO::select if you want to know if you can read from a IO


Guy Decoux

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