From: jweirich@... Date: 2000-11-18T12:32:17+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:6433] Re: Two-Way Pipes with popen >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Thomas writes: Jim> I want to start a process and feed it information through its Jim> standard input and read the result from its standard output. Jim> [...] Dave> IO.popen does what you want. Thanks. I missed the close_write call. Dave> This comes from pg 121: I'm reminded of the story of prison immates who had numbered all their jokes. Someone would call out "Number 15!" and all would laugh. I imagine that we could rewrite the Ruby FAQ with answers like "Page 121!" and "Page 271!" (one of my personal favorites). -- -- Jim Weirich jweirich@one.net http://w3.one.net/~jweirich --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)