23 Apr
2009
23 Apr
'09
7:47 a.m.
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:51:45PM +0100, Rui Carneiro wrote:
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Cons:
- Some programs to parse special formats (p.e. catppt and pdftotext) do not accept input from stdin (we need to create temporary files).
[from the peanut gallery here]
Note that some formats might require to seek to some point in the file [1] (typically the end), so reading from stdin is awkward (it would require stdin to be seekable, so either the app or the caller would have to put the whole file somewhere anyway).
[1] Notably PDF has some index tables at EOF - 1k if I remember correctly.
Regards
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