[Dart] compile output

Amitha Perera perera at cs.rpi.edu
Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:54:06 -0500


But it's not difficult to write a small script to emulate it's
functionality:

cat.tcl:
  #!/usr/local/bin/tclsh8.3
  puts [read stdin]


munge.tcl:
  set f [open "|process |& cat.tcl" "r"]
  set all_process_out [ read $f ]


Amitha.


On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:44:13AM -0500, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> Cat is not standard on windows and can not be used.
> 
> -Bill
> 
> 
> At 10:38 AM 1/22/2002 -0500, Amitha Perera wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:10:44AM -0500, Blezek, Daniel J (CRD)
> >wrote:
> >>   I tried to do this, but Tcl just doesn't support the proper
> >> mechanisms.  While you can fork the process off, there is no way to
> >> monitor it to see when it's finished.  Another approach is to open
> >> the build process as a pipe, and read from it, but only stdout can
> >> be read in this way, stderr must go to a file, and we loose the
> >> interleaving to associate an error with a file.
> >
> >I think something like the following will work, if you want to capture
> >both streams:
> >
> >  set f [open "|yourprocess |& cat" "r"]
> >
> >where cat is the standard Unix process that reads stdin and spits out
> >to stdout. (At least, it works under Unix.)