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Pty

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: perl 5.004, patch 04
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IO::Pty - Pseudo TTY object class

    use IO::Pty;

    $pty = new IO::Pty;

    $slave  = $pty->slave;

    foreach $val (1..10) {        print $pty "$val\n";        $_ = <$slave>;        print "$_";     }

    close($slave);

IO::Pty provides an interface to allow the creation of a pseudo tty.

IO::Pty inherits from IO::Handle and so provide all the methodsdefined by the IO::Handle package.

new: The new contructor take no arguments and returns a new object whichthe master side of the pseudo tty.

slave: The slave method will return a new IO::Pty object whichrepresents the slave side of the pseudo tty
ttyname: Returns the name of the pseudo tty. On UNIX machines this will bethe pathname of the device.

Graham Barr <gbarrAATTti.com>

Based on original Ptty module by Nick Ing-Simmons<nikAATTtiuk.ti.com>

Most of the C code used in the XS file is covered by the GNU GENERALPUBLIC LICENSE, See COPYING

All other code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modifyit under the same terms as Perl itself.

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