[MacPerl] Re: Mac Penguins from Mars, Unix Penguins from Venus?

[Felix Gallo <fsg@coriolan.amicus.com>]

Our favorite Tim writes:
> > From: "William J. Middleton" <wjm@best.com>
> > 
> >   I've been spending some time getting Penguin to work on Macintosh.
> > I'm happy to say, all of IO, PGP, and the core Penguin stuff
> > is working fine, when I go Mac <-> Mac.
> > 
> >   The problem, as you might guess, is waddling from unix <-> mac.
> > The line termination characters cause IO to hang for lack of
> > an autoflush().
> 
> Eh?

Yeah, I'm curious too, especially considering line 34 of Penguin's
TCP/Client.pm:

    $self->{'Socket'}->autoflush();

Also, Penguin uses $fh->getline, so I would expect IO to be doing
the right thing there.

What's the exact behavior, Bill?  Is it bidirectionally bust?

Felix