Re: ⎕FIO Buffer limit is 5000 Bytes

[Dr . Jürgen Sauermann]

Hi,

On 10/30/20 6:14 PM, Kacper Gutowski wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 02:34:35PM +0100, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann wrote:
> > There is also ⎕FIO[26] which reads an entire file, but I am not sure 
> > how it works with popen()ed streams.
>
> It doesn't at all because it takes a path which additionally needs to 
> be a regular file because it's mmaped rather than read.
>
> For the record, something like ⍎')HOST ...' might sometimes be practical.
>
> -k
That is actually a cool idea: run your pipe or program with )HOST, 
forward the
output into some /tmp/xxx and read back /tmp/xxx. It also gives you some 
more
control over using stdout, stderr, or both from the executed program .

Jürgen