From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from techfac.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de ([129.70.1.2]) by archone.tamu.edu with SMTP id <18915>; Tue, 17 Sep 1991 03:27:37 -0500 Received: from dahlie.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE by techfac.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (5.65+bind 1.7+ida 1.4.2/tp.29.0890) id AA26139; Tue, 17 Sep 91 10:26:58 +0200 Received: by dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (4.1/tp.29.0890) id AA15794; Tue, 17 Sep 91 10:26:56 +0200 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1991 03:26:56 -0500 From: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de Message-Id: <9109170826.AA15794@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> To: rc@archone.tamu.edu Subject: Re: is there any clever way to do 'read' in rc scripts? At least under SunOs and Ultrix there is a programm called "line" which does the job. You'll like to read the man page. fn read { $1=`{ line } } _______________________________________________________________________________ malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de send mail to: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet z. Hd. Malte Uhl Postfach 8640 4800 Bielefeld 1