[paranoia] cdparanoia, '-e' switch, and smiley faces

[Arne Zellentin]

On Sunday, 29. April 2001 04:41, you wrote:
> I am trying to write up a wrapper in perlTk for cdparanoia and my
> favorite mp3 encoder (currently xing and notlame).
> I'm trying to use the -e switch on cdparanoia and noticed you can't seem
> to get to the smiley faces, you just get the read/write/verify/overlap
> status.
> Is there a way to re-generate the progress state (<space>,'-','+'. etc)
> and/or the smiley faces from the -e stream?
> If anyone can tell me how, that'd be great.  I don't want to loose those
> nice status indicators.

Well, if all else fails, use pseudo-ttys (ptys). That's what I do in Jack. 
With ptys you can trick about any console application into thinking it's 
running on a regular terminal/console/tty.

cu arne

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