Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to be concrete, suppose one wants to run the following as a > concurrent process to R. (What is does is it implicitly sets x to > zero and then for each line of stdin it adds the first field of the > input to x and prints that to stdout unless the first field is > "exit" in which case it exits. gawk has an implicit read/process > loop so one does not have to specify the read step. The fflush() > command just makes sure that output is emitted, rather than > buffered, as it is produced.)
It seems you're just trying to reinvent fifo and/or pipe connections for interprocess communication. That is not directly related to the problem I wanted to address. -- Dave ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel