From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 23 01:07:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA20655 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 01:07:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA20646 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 01:07:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA02764 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:06:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA26795; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:43:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970623094355.VJ01907@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:43:55 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: use of readline() References: <199706230235.MAA14365@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199706230235.MAA14365@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Jun 23, 1997 12:05:40 +0930 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > Seeing as we have readline() in the tree, would anyone explode violently > if it were used generally for reading user input in the case of programs > like lpc(8), cdcontrol(1), etc? ftp(1)! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)