in reply to Re^2: tk, fileevent, and MS Windows
in thread tk, fileevent, and MS Windows

See Please suggest a non-forking way to do this (OS: windows) at the end where ikegami actually figured it out in Re: Please suggest a non-forking way to do this (OS: windows) (solution)

but I had to beg him :-)

It is essentially the Win32 version of linux's ioctl and fionread methods, as described in "perldoc -q filehandle"

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