🚀 go-pugleaf

warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins) writes:

>this is true on UNIX, too.  That is because the Y/N code opens the tty
>to read the values.  I agree that there should be some way to override this.
>Which particular cases are you trying to shell around?

I'm trying to cover as many bases as I possibly can.  Although for key
creation I'm afraid I'm going to be limited to bringing the child process to
the forground and letting the user interact on his/her own.  All others I
need to be able to feed as stdio, however.

>   2) Output to a pipe does not work - PGP tries to rename the "file"
>   it finds, it cannot, it prompts for a new filename.  (Simply allowing 
>   an overwrite option should work wonderfully... preferably as a
>   default or a command line parameter.)

>What do you mean?  I've never had much problem with this.

Maybe this one is OS/2 implementation specific.  I'd bust out the source to
have a look, but I'm a bit constrained already as far as disk space...

Don
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