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Subject: Re: read 
In-reply-to: alan's message of Sun, 16 May 93 02:49:13 -0400.
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Date:	Sun, 16 May 1993 03:12:05 -0400
From:	Chris Siebenmann <cks>
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 You can't do a read that works unless you have a program that reads
input without any buffering (note that anything using stdio doesn't
qualify; stdio will happily suck in a buffer's worth when stdin isn't
a terminal).

 If you assume line, you can do a clumsy read; $bgstatus makes it much
cleaner (thank you, Byron!).

	- cks