Re: read a reply from the terminal

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=)
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:04:43 +0200
> 
> How can insert-file-contents be used to read a reply from the terminal
> (if you know how many bytes it contains). It sounded like you had a
> solution in mind.

The terminal can be addressed by name (its device driver name,
something like "/dev/tty1"), right?  If so, you can read from that
device as if it were a file.  insert-file-contents is a way to read
from files, and it supports reading a certain number of bytes.