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

[Bill Davidsen]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Arne Zellentin wrote:

> 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.

The script command may be useful, as is "expect" and possibly "pty-redir"
software. All put output on a pty.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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