Ted writes:
> later it stopped working again.  I'm now suspecting that it is reading $STDIN
> in blocks or some such.  Does that fit with the symptoms?

Yes.  I think.

> Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]) | From the Tom Swifty collection:
> Southern Adventist University    | "I'll never understand quantum mechanics",
> Collegedale, TN  37315           | Tom sighed starrily.

Shouldn't that be:  "I'll never understand quantum mechanics",
                    Tom said indeterminately?
                 or Tom said uncertainly?
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