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To: Henric Jungheim <junghelh@pe-nelson.com> Subject: Re: flex 2.5.4a In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:41:42 PST. Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:50:14 PST From: Vern Paxson <vern> > This brings up a feature request: How about a command line > option to specify the filename when reading from stdin? That way one > doesn't need to create a temporary file in order to get the "#line" > directives to make sense. Use -o combined with -t (per the man page description of -o). > P.S., Is there any simple way to use non-blocking IO to parse multiple > streams? Simple, no. One approach might be to return a magic character on EWOULDBLOCK and have a rule .*<magic-character> // put back .*, eat magic character This is off the top of my head, not sure it'll work. Vern