I have a quick question, that I don't have time to test right now but I figured someone might have a quick reply. If I use IO::Select to tell me when I can read from STDIN, does that mean it will tell me as soon as anything is typed on STDIN, or just when there is a whole line to read (i.e. the user hit ENTER. Is this all just depending on if STDIN has autoflush set or not? Is that really what autoflush does? (I'm not sure I fully understand autoflush I guess).

Thanks!!!!!

Justin Eltoft

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In reply to IO::Select question by Eradicatore

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