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HELP INPUT A. Sloman Aug 1988 This file gives an overview of documentation on Pop-11 input facilities. For more detailed information on basic input and output procedures for reading information from or writing it to terminals, disks, pipes, mailboxes, or other devices, see REF *SYSIO, and REF * SYSUTIL. For information on character stream input and output, see REF * CHARIO The file names used below are all names of HELP files unless otherwise specified. For information on input from the terminal see *CHARIN, *RAWCHARIN, *POPRAWDEVIN For information on input from disks and other devices, see *DISCIN, *SYSREAD For information on input in VED see *VEDINASCII *VEDGETINPUT For information on input and output from a Unix sub-process see HELP *PIPEUTILS For breaking up an input stream of characters into a stream of text items, see *INCHARITEM, REF *ITEMISE, REF * PROGLIST For reading characters and individual items from the current POP compiler input stream see *CUCHARIN, *NEXTCHAR, *ITEMREAD, *NEXTREADITEM, *READITEM, *POP11_NEED_NEXTITEM, *POP11_TRY_NEXTITEM *POP11_TRY_NEXTREADITEM For reading in a line of text typed at the terminal, see *READLINE, *REQUESTLINE, *GETLINE For reading in a list expression from the current input stream see *LISTREAD For information on timing out reads and returning defaults, or invoking a timeout procedure, see *POP_TIMEOUT, *CHARIN_TIMEOUT, *SYSSETTIMER and REF * CHARIO, REF * TIMES, REF * SYSUTIL --- C.all/help/input --------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright University of Sussex 1988. All rights reserved. ----------