[fpc-pascal]Read STIN on FreeBSD

[Si.]

so how would one do say echo "hello world" | freepascal-program

Is that possible on FreeBSD ?

Si.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fpc-pascal-admin at deadlock.et.tudelft.nl
> [mailto:fpc-pascal-admin at deadlock.et.tudelft.nl]On Behalf Of Marco van
> de Voort
> Sent: 08 March 2001 18:59
> To: fpc-pascal at deadlock.et.tudelft.nl
> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Read STIN on FreeBSD
> 
> 
> > Perhaps I misunderstand the question,
> > 
> > but couldn't you use Readln, read, or keypressed/readkey? (if 
> you use the
> > CRT unit).  Under most systems (and Pascals), stdin is assigned 
> to be the
> > default for readln (and likewise stdout for writeln).  So, to read in a
> > string from the standard input, you could use:
> > 
> > var
> >  st:string;
> > begin
> >  readln(st);
> > end;
> > 
> > 
> > If you were looking for a charicter by charicter basis, you could use
> > readkey.  If you need more examples, let me know.
> 
> 
> It is possible to use readkey under FreeBSD, but from the ncrt 
> unit, not the
> CRT unit. The Linux Crt unit is very Linux specific, and was not 
> portable to
> FreeBSD.
> 
> 
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