[Gambas-user] Pipe doesn't receive contents

[Rolf Schmidt]

Hello Rolf-Werner

> DIM hFile AS File
> DIM sLine AS String
>
> hFile = PIPE "/tmp/FIFO1" FOR INPUT
>
> PRINT "Now let's start:"
>
> WHILE NOT Eof(hFile)
>    LINE INPUT #hFile, sLine
>    PRINT sLine
> WEND
>
> PRINT "That's it."
>

You can't wait until EOF on a named pipe! Also a 'tail' on a named pipe will 
never give you some data - but 'cat' do!

Just read and find another mechanism to stop reading.

Hope that helps
Rolf
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