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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 15:03:44 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To: kenny AT Freak DOT ORG
Subject: Re: read()?
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

>     while ((count = read(0, buffer, sizeof(buffer))) > 0) {
 
You are reading from handle 0, which is standard input, probably
the keyboard.  If you don't type anything, this indeed *should*
hang until such time as you type sizeof(buffer) characters.  Could
this be the problem?

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