Using stdin / stdout on Unix

[Randall Hopper]

Dave Cole:
 |I have only just started to use progress and am trying to make a
 |program (on Solaris) accept input from stdin and write to stdout.  The
 |only I have worked out is the following:
 |
 |INPUT THROUGH cat NO-ECHO.
 |OUTPUT THROUGH cat.
 |
 |This seems a bit stupid.  Surely there is a way to do the same thing
 |without having to bounce everything through cat.

Sounds like what you seek is called "expect", originating in Tcl-land
(IIRC) but I recall seeing references to expect for Python on this list.
Search the list archives or the Python web site for this string and you
should turn up hits.

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Randall Hopper
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