Re: Reading from standard input (revisited from 2001)

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,
No, we have not had a chance to find a fix for this.  Note that it's system
dependent.  It happens under linux but not Solaris.

Ansley

Steve Cousins wrote:

> Just a note to say that there still appears to be a bug when trying to get
> ferret to take input from the command line like:
>
> 	ferret -gif < gif.jnl
>
> when gif.jnl is greater than 512 bytes.  It seems to chop off the first
> 512 bytes.
>
> On 20011109 Ansley Manke replied to Andrew Irwins email about this, saying
> that as of Beta v5.33 the bug still existed.  I'm using v5.53. Maybe it
> has been fixed since then but I didn't see anything about it in the
> Release Notes for 5.6 or 5.7.
>
> I'm using the work-around that was suggested (having a short intermediate
> jnl that calls gif.jnl) but thought it would be good to reawaken this bug
> report.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
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