[erlang-questions] "-noshell" on R9C

[Peter Lund]

Trying to use io:print_chars/1 on R9C in combination with unix pipes and 
the "-noshell" option on a new MacOS X machine.

Does anyone perhaps know why I get "[]" before each character below?

$ erlc myprint.erl

$ cat test.txt
My example text.

$ cat test.txt | erl -noshell -run myprint print     
[]M[]y[] []e[]x[]a[]m[]p[]l[]e[] []t[]e[]x[]t[].[]
[]Num chars 17

$ cat myprint.erl
-module(myprint).

-export([print/0]).

print() -> print(get_char(),0).

print(eof,N) ->
    io:format("Num chars ~p\n",[N]),
    halt();
print(C,N) when is_integer(C) ->
    io:put_chars([C]),
    print(get_char(),N+1).

get_char() ->
    case io:get_chars("",1) of
        eof -> eof;
        [C] -> C
    end.
$