From: z93john@mtek.chalmers.se (John I Quist)
Subject: Re: Opening a fifo hangs
Date: 1999/02/22
Date: 1999-02-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7arvpt$1k1$1@nyheter.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ars5p$4hp$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
dennison@telepath.com wrote:
: > Disk space is indeed a problem... I have 19 megs left of my
: > 42 meg quota. I'll take a look at the GNAT package and see
: > if it's possible to squeeze it in.
: Considering that the NT binary distribution was 18M compressed, I don't think
: you're gonna make it. I'd suggest going to the powers that be and asking to
: have your quota bumped by 20M or so. UCF would always do it for me when
It didn't fit.. ;)
The powers that be are nice indeed, but they are fighting against the
almighty bureaucracy(sp?) and haven't managed to shake loose the cash
needed to buy more disk space.
I did a "pragma Import (C, Execute, "system");" instead.
I circumvent the open() problems by doing "echo string > fifo".
It isn't pretty, but what the... It works, and that's what matters today.
If somebody finds an answer, I'd be glad to see it!
Thanx for your help!
/John.
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1999-02-18 0:00 Opening a fifo hangs John I Quist
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` John I Quist
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` John I Quist
1999-02-22 0:00 ` dennison
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