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- From: hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Good comm program?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.235057.14132@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 23:50:57 GMT
- References: <arumble.711622204@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> <9207201343@myamig2.myamiga.mixcom.com>
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- In article <9207201343@myamig2.myamiga.mixcom.com>, smp@myamig2.myamiga.mixcom.com (Steve Palm) writes:
- |> arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble) writes:
- |> :
- |> : If *SOMONE* could post a *GOOD* port of Minicom (One that works) we
- |> : might just have a good Comms package..
- |>
- |> Before I post . . .
- |>
- |> I have Minicom working just great. It only has ONE problem on my system.
- |>
- |> For up/downloads, it opens a window to show status. It's opening a pipe
- |> to capture the output of the transfer command, and sending that to the
- |> input of the window...
- |>
- |> Are pipes buffered? Because output to that window is only updated after
- |> quite some stuff has flowed through, making it useless as a status box.
- |>
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- If you use stdio, I believe everything is buffered by default. You can use
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- 1. setbuf (fp, NULL);
- 2. setbuffer (fp, NULL, 0);
- 3. setvbuf (fp, NULL, _IONBF, 0);
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- to turn off the buffering for status window. Pick one you like.
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- |> If this doesn't bother anyone, I'll put it up somewhere.
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- H.J.
- Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.
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