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author | cjep <cjep> | 2004-01-11 12:42:40 +0000 |
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committer | cjep <cjep> | 2004-01-11 12:42:40 +0000 |
commit | e1980c64b4c7ab75386cfe38349889086ffea7d8 (patch) | |
tree | d3d4e303b1740b3df6c0d227b46a59fc688e5673 /devel | |
parent | fd2ccbe663070d5a1cd5a563850cd09d20b9cec5 (diff) | |
download | pkgsrc-e1980c64b4c7ab75386cfe38349889086ffea7d8.tar.gz |
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-rw-r--r-- | devel/p5-IO-Stty/DESCR | 28 |
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diff --git a/devel/p5-IO-Stty/DESCR b/devel/p5-IO-Stty/DESCR index 54de771d4a7..3699ade042b 100644 --- a/devel/p5-IO-Stty/DESCR +++ b/devel/p5-IO-Stty/DESCR @@ -1,34 +1,10 @@ - - The two perl items in this package are an stty shell script and a +The two perl items in this package are an stty shell script and a module for setting terminal parameters. to use the Stty.pm module stuff it in your $PERL_LIB_DIR/site_perl/IO directory. In your scripts do: use IO::Stty; IO::Stty::stty(\*TTYHANDLE, @modes); - This has not been tailored to the IO::File stuff but will work with it as +This has not been tailored to the IO::File stuff but will work with it as indicated. Before you go futzing with term parameters it's a good idea to grab the current settings and restore them when you finish. - - Example: - - use IO::Stty; - $old_mode=IO::Stty::stty(\*STDIN,'-g'); - # Turn off echoing. - IO::Stty::stty(\*STDIN,'-echo'); - # Do whatever.. grab input maybe? - $read_password = <>; - # Now restore the old mode. - IO::Stty::stty(\*STDIN,$old_mode); - # What settings do we have anyway? - print IO::Stty::stty(\*STDIN,'-a'); - - - This is use at your own risk software. Do anything you want with it except -blame me for it blowing up your machine because it's full of bugs. - The file stty.txt indicates what functions are supported. Standard POSIX -stuff. If any of the settings are wrong and you actually know what some of -these extremely arcane settings (like what 'sane' should be in POSIX land) -really should be, let me know. - -11-08-97 Austin Schutz<tex@habit.com> |