piping & executing external commands (STDIN)

2000-11-16 Thread Jorg Ziefle
I want to pipe a message from within Mutt to a Perl program, which not only processes it, but as well reads some user input from STDIN. As far as I know, the command ('|') only allows to _write_ the message to STDOUT, but then returns immediately (as its name suggests). So, is there a possibilt

Re: piping & executing external commands (STDIN)

2000-11-17 Thread Jorg Ziefle
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:09:16AM +, Conor Daly hammered out this masterpiece: > > So, is there a possibilty to achieve printing to a message to an > > external program which is then executed _before_ returning to Mutt? > I've fought that fight before and AFAIK, there's no way to catch stdin