Hello John, Monday, March 18, 2002, 5:15:18 AM, John wrote:
> I do not understand the results of the following experiment, and would > appreciate input. > Using telnet on a Win PC, I executed this code: > perl -e ‘print "Hello world.\n\r"' > /dev/tty1 > On my Linux system monitor (/dev/tty1), I see "Hello world." printed along > with the newline and carriage return. > What I don't understand is why I don't see a return of my Linux screen > prompt until I hit the Enter key on that system. > Should I be flushing some sort of buffer, closing a file, or transmitting > some other code sequence to indicate an end to my output? try without the \r \n is a "newline", \r a "carriage return", in windows files you usually need both, on unix you usually only need the newline. the \r in this case will move the cursor back to the start of the line, overwriting the prompt which is there. -- Best Regards, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
