Re: `expect-strings' and `with-input-from-port'

[thi <ttn at revel dot glug dot org>]

   From: Gary Houston <ghouston@arglist.com>
   Date: 23 Mar 2000 21:18:38 -0000

   Consider this:

   (char-ready? (open-input-pipe "cat /etc/passwd"))

   => #f

   since the program will take a while to start up.

   Here's a similar example which does work:

   [example w/o using `char-ready?']

cool, that's what i need.  thanks!

thi