From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-12-19T15:18:34+09:00
Subject: Re: automating script for a command line utility

Hello Shashank,

Thursday, December 19, 2002, 8:14:31 AM, you wrote:

SD> Per nobu's suggestion, this is what I did:

SD>     check = IO.popen("ruby c:/ruby/bin/irb.rb",'w+')
SD>     check.puts("STDOUT.sync = true")

SD> But the program seemed to hang.

you must exec "sync" at both sides :) add after first line

check.sync = true

i use this techinque to work with perl.exe and it really works

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