ax25d and STDIN

[Ben Gelb <ben@gelbnet.com>]

I am trying to write a simple scripts in PHP to run with ax25d. It will
be used to collect information from aid stations at the upcoming Marine
Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C.

I didn't want to get into network programming if it isn't necessary. And
I would prefer to use an uncompiled language, like php or perl, so that
I can make changes quickly if necessary.

To output data I am using fopen("php://stdout", "w"); and to read data I
am using fopen("php://stdin", "r"); The writing data part works fine,
but whenever I attempt to read in data from stdin, ax25d hangs up.

I have noticed in C++ I get this same problem when I attempt to use
scanf to read in. However, if I use cin instead, it works fine.

Does anybody know why this occurs and what I might do about it?

Thanks Very Much!

73 de Ben, KF4KJQ