Re: reading from standard input

[Ansley Manke <ansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew,
This looks to be a bug; it occurs in the Beta v5.33 as well.  We'll
look into it.  In the meantime your workaround to pass in a script
that says just "go test.jnl"  works and allows you to run your scripts
without having to make changes to them.

Ansley Manke


Andrew J Irwin wrote:

> 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

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