Subj : Re: Evolution of a Progr
To   : Grymmjack
From : Deuce
Date : Thu Jun 16 2005 11:51 am

  Re: Re: Evolution of a Progr
  By: Grymmjack to Digital Man on Thu Jun 16 2005 00:31:00

 >  > If it's a Unix editor, it needs to use standard I/O or socket-based I/O. 
 >  > it's a DOS or Win32 editor it needs to use either standard I/O, FOSSIL, o
 >  > socket-based I/O. Pretty much the same as doors on Synchronet (see
 >  > http://doors.synchro.net for details).
 > 
 > i didn't realize that pico and nano used 'standard i/o' ? maybe i'm
 > thinking the wrong way about stdio. i'm thinking pipes and redirection and
 > standard input and output and standard error.. i thought that when you
 > edit files since it's coming in live, and not from somewhere else, it
 > would not be possible to be stdio?

Right, that's the Windowsy way to look at stdio.  In the *nix world we have a
much richer stdio interface.  In general, no Windows program uses stdio.  In
general, every *nix program does.

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