Re^3: Ask for STDIN but don't pause for it

Works here. Are you hitting Enter to finish the line input? Otherwise use sysread.

$ ./928062.pl
Fri Sep 30 06:56:53 2011
Fri Sep 30 06:56:58 2011
asdfasfsad
GLOB(0x7afe00)
got: asdfasfsad
Fri Sep 30 06:57:02 2011
^C

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Re^4: Ask for STDIN but don't pause for it by Anonymous Monk on Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24 UTC
same problem sysread doesn't solve. It seems a matter of not blocking can_read. Did you manage to have it working?	[reply]
Re^5: Ask for STDIN but don't pause for it by Anonymous Monk on Feb 02, 2012 at 09:19 UTC
It works on Linux, it doesn't on Windows XP. Do you know why? thank you	[reply]
Re^6: Ask for STDIN but don't pause for it by Anonymous Monk on Feb 02, 2012 at 09:24 UTC
Because cmd.exe is not bash, or csh, or ..... there is a reason abstractions such as Curses/Term::Readline::Gnu were invented	[reply]