Re: building rc on QNX4

[Stephen Tell <tell@cs.unc.edu>]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Tim Goodwin wrote:

> Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 05:15:01 -0400
> From: Tim Goodwin <tjg@star.le.ac.uk>
> To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
> Subject: Re: building rc on QNX4
> 
> >  In order to make this work, you need to find a utility that is
> > guaranteed to read no more than the first line of standard input.
> 
> Yup.  What if such a utility were distributed with rc, or as part of an
> rc-utils package?

I suppose that would be sufficient.  The workaround I've used
has been this:

 var = `{sh -c 'read t; echo $t'}  # read var

Starting up sh just to avoid the little bit of code that a read
builtin would add to rc itself or an included utility seems a bit
rediculous.


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