RE: [misterhouse-users] Question about programing for mh.

[Cyber L. <cl...@ww...>]

Let me retract that last statment.. I just tried it up here at work and it
did not work for be but it does work at home.. I am looking into it..


On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Bruce Winter wrote:

> 
> > Ok for example mpg123 uses a -R arg to put it into command mode.
> > Once there sending
> > data to STDIN such as
> >
> > LOAD song.mp3
> > PLAY
> > PAUSE
> > etc.
> >
> > will controle the mpg123 player. reading STDOUT it will tell you
> > what it is doing.
> 
> Sorry for the delay on getting back to you on this one.   I just downloaded
> and installed mpg123-0.59r.tar.gz from http://www.mpg123.de/ but it does not
> seem to have the -R option.
> 
> I did code up a simple test case to show how you can write to a programs
> STDIN, then read from its STDOUT.  You can pick up the the mh code and a
> simple test driver it calls at:
> 
>  http://misterhouse.net/public/test_open2.pl
> 
>  http://misterhouse.net/public/test_open2_driver
> 
> The danger to this approach is if you write something to the program, then
> do the read to get something back and nothing comes back, mh will hang,
> waiting for input.
> 
> If you get these working with your mpg123, be sure to let me know!
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
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