From: nedry <nedry@...>
Date: 2003-05-16T09:55:55+09:00
Subject: another popen question...the ruby bbs

All this talk of popen put me in mind of something.  I could use it to link the Ruby BBS to external programs, specifically all those old dos door games by using dosemu and redirecting the output... 

I got it to get the data from the application ok, but I can't figure out how to get data to the application.... nothing seems to be happening when I write data to the external process... any ideas, advice, boots to the head would be appreciated (keeping in mind that it is now 2am...)

 def doortest

   begin
    pipe = IO.popen("./dosemu,"w+")
    while true
           puts ("loop...")
	 if select([pipe],nil,nil,0.1) !=nil
     char = pipe.getc

    puts "char: #{char}"
      #if char != nil
       @socket.write (char.chr)
       @socket.write CR.chr if char == LF
      else
       if select([@socket],nil,nil,0.1) != nil
       puts "socket hit"

        char = @socket.getc
	puts char.chr
        pipe.putc(char.chr) if char != nil
	
       end
      end
     end
    rescue
     print ("\r\nDisconnected from Application...\r\n")
     pipe.close
    end
   end


Thanks!

Mark Firestone