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Subject: Re: Functions/Misc/nslookup (Re: coproc tutorial (Re: questions))
In-Reply-To: <991011175801.ZM7111@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Oct 11, 1999  5:58: 1 pm"
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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>

Bart Schaefer wrote:
>This doesn't work for me because the real nslookup begins block-buffering
>its output when stdout is not a tty.

What we need: a loadable builtin that has the effect of coproc but
with a pseudo-tty in place of the pair of pipes.  Then we'll be able to
write zfep.

-zefram