On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 09:58:14PM -0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Gary Johnson thought:
> > I _did_ try redirecting input from whatever tty I was on at the
> > time but unsucessfully. It apeared to me that, since mutt was running in
> > the same tty, _it_ was intercepting keyboard input rather than my script.
>
> Well, if your program was running in the background at the same time
> mutt was running in the foreground, then you would have trouble reading
> from the tty. When I've done that inadvertently, each program seems to
> get about half the keystrokes, every other keystroke going to a
> different program. Otherwise, as long as mutt is suspended waiting for
> your program to finish before it continues, you should be able to
> redirect your program's stdin from the tty without any problem.
>
> Maybe if you could provide more details of exactly what you did and
> exactly how it failed, we might be able to figure out a solution.
>
Will delve and post
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Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Domestic Sysadmin :-)
