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On 15 Feb 2001, NAGY Andras wrote:

> > Any ideas how to fix this?
>
> setbuf(stdin, NULL) in imtest.c.

Nice.  Did you send patches upstream to CMU people?

> I dream of a world where capabilities of emacs can be extended through
> loadable native object code and lisp wrappers, instead of having to
> parse the hairy output of helper programs, which were designed for
> debugging and not for everyday use by a mailer.

I believe there are patches for Emacs (20) to dynamically load .so's.
Elisp wrappers that load .so's implementing base64, md5, etc are
floating around. You'd still need to write imtest.so though.