reading from standard input

[Andrew J Irwin <irwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All.

I've got a problem with Ferret v 5.22 on Linux (pre-compiled binaries, I'm 
running RedHat 7.2)

If I invoke ferret with a journal file passed in via stdin, e.g.
    ferret < test.jnl
everything works fine on short scripts, but if there are more than 512 
characters (including newlines) then ferret seems to skip over the first 
512 bytes.

So far I'm working around this by passing in short files, although I 
suppose I could pass in the simple instruction "go test.jnl" and that would 
work too.

Is there a more official way to do what I'm trying to do?

Thanks,

Andrew