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- From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: rz/sz doesn't work on our machiens
- Message-ID: <5b179b80.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 21:31:58 GMT
- References: <9209082141.AA02720@cel.cummins.com>
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- In article <9209082141.AA02720@cel.cummins.com>, philip@cel.cummins.com (Philip D. Pokorny) writes:
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- There is a routine called readline that reads a
- line of input and returns after reading a line or a timeout is
- exceeded. This turned out to be the culprit. Something about
- signal()'s not acting correctly and needing both BLOCK and
- NOBLOCK access to an sio. I "fixed" it by writing a BUSY loop
- that checks time_$clock and does NON-BLOCKING reads.
-
- Why didn't you just use select()?
-