From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by archone.tamu.edu id <18946>; Mon, 16 Sep 1991 17:25:19 -0500 From: Byron Rakitzis To: rc Subject: Re: is there any clever way to do 'read' in rc scripts? Message-Id: <91Sep16.172519cdt.18946@archone.tamu.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1991 17:25:07 -0500 I think that in general you will run into trouble with utilities that buffer their input. Therefore you'll need to write a C program that reads 1 character at a time up to a newline, then quits. Please someone tell me I'm wrong.