Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >You would probably need "q\n" in order to get the data flushed to the
> >subprocess.  This is probably a stdio buffering issue.  When the stdio
> >library determines that the output is not a tty then the output is
> >buffered into large blocks for performance reasons. 
> 
> That doesn't sound right, wouldn't an fflush be better? The '\n' might 
> have undesired side effects.

I was taking that experience from using less inside of an emacs shell
window.  It works there.  :^}

Bob


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