On Tuesday, 22 April 2003 at 19:23:31 +0900, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:06:38PM +0900, Jim Freeze wrote:
> > There seems to be a lot of people asking for this and I have read
> > a lot of responses on ruby-talk, but most of the threads end before
> > a final solution is obtained. So far, the link below looks the
> > most promising:
> > 
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%2Bselect+%2Bopen3+group:comp.lang.ruby&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.lang.ruby&selm=E13wxQm-0005FP-00%40ev.netlab.zetabits.co.jp&rnum=5
> 
> That's an old post. I believe popen itself now supports bi-directional
> communication natively.
> 
>   a = IO.popen("nroff -man","w+")
>   Thread.new do
>     while line = gets
>       a.print line
>     end
>     a.close_write
>   end
>   while line = a.gets
>     print ":", line
>   end
>   a.close_read
> 
> (This works under Unix for version 1.6.8, I seem to recall that it was fixed
> for Windows in 1.7.something)


Thanks. This works great! Exactly what I was looking for.

-- 
Jim Freeze
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