From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ece0aa831b76f79d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: z93john@mtek.chalmers.se (John I Quist) Subject: Re: Opening a fifo hangs Date: 1999/02/22 Message-ID: <7arvpt$1k1$1@nyheter.chalmers.se>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 447120682 References: <7agtmi$8a$1@nyheter.chalmers.se> <7ai55d$6c9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7ajif8$8ee$1@nyheter.chalmers.se> <7ajuvh$mr2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7ardv0$slp$1@nyheter.chalmers.se> <7ars5p$4hp$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: School of Mechanical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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.