Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Use console, not stdin/stderr, for prompting

From: Peter Samuelson <peter_at_p12n.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 15:22:16 -0500

[Peter Samuelson]
> I _am_ rather curious whether, on Windows, using "CON:" for prompting
> actually allows stdin to be usable for other things. Like, when
> piping or redirecting to it. I suppose I can try to test this
> feature using MingW32 + Wine

Hmmm, fopen("CON:", "r+") in mingw32 + Wine just returns a "no such
file or directory" error. Not quite what I was hoping for. I'm
attaching my test program, maybe someone can test it on Windows....

Peter

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