Well, reap this if you will, but I'm asking cause I can't seem to find a straight answer, just really good ideas.

I was trying to make <STDIN> in a small script read quite a bit of data, when I ran into a problem, it didn't read it all, instead it locked up the script, and I had to kill it.
No need to post any code as its just your basic; 
print "Who's Yer Daddy?\n";
chomp($var=<STDIN>);

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Statement.

So anywhoo, my question is this..
Is there a set Maximum Buffer setting for STDIN?
If so, is it something Perl determines, or is decided by the OS? I'll probably just rewrite the script to use Term::Readkey, cause I think it will work better for me. However, I was just curious about that. Ideas??

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In reply to STDIN to the Max?!? by defyance

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