Test of possible ACSGATE on net

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <16103 at nswitgould.cs.uts.oz> garth_kidd%680.808 at fidogate.fido.oz (Garth Kidd) writes:
>Can anyone think of a tighter way of coding a filter to strip spaces 
>from the input stream than this?

Actually, yes, but I don't want to encourage this utterly HORRIBLE program.
Did you realize that unbuffered 1-byte reads/writes impose tremendous
overhead?  Or that many systems do not have UNIX-compatible read()/write()
functions?