Re: [MACTCL] Input values in the middle of a script?

[Larry W. V. <lv...@ca...>]

From: Kevan Hashemi <ha...@br...>

> I can't get a script to stop and read
>input from stdin. I tried
>
>puts -nonewline "Enter something: "
>set foo [gets stdin]

Do you see the string "Enter something" ?

There is one reason I can think of that this would fail.  If your
program is being executed from a crontab or in some other way has
had the controlling terminal disconnected from the process, then
the gets would return an empty string and would continue.


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