Re: [MacPerl] line buffering in perl5 (fwd)

[trr@frame.com (Tim Ringwood)]

Forwarded message:
> From neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch Tue Apr 16 10:57:02 1996
> Message-Id: <199604161557.RAA04279@yggdrasil.ethz.ch>
> To: mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [MacPerl] line buffering in perl5 
> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 15 Apr 1996 18:05:28 -0700.
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 17:57:46 +0200
> From: Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
> Sender: owner-mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch
> Precedence: bulk
> 
> edjames@metro.apple.com (Ed James) writes:
> >I notice that the mpw tool now seems to line buffer STDOUT, whereas
> >the perl4 seemed to buffer on a larger blocksize.
> 
> You are right, and no, I'm not aware of any Perl mechanism to change buffering
> in running programs except $|. Maybe I should revise my idea of line buffering
> stdout. I had picked this as the default for no better reason than the fact
> that UN*X does this, too.

Personally I like the new method better than Perl4. If I have a vote I'd vote
to keep it as it is.

BTW: Some folks said to use "system" to call programs or MPW commands, yet
system crashes my system. Any clue why? Bad download?

tim