On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:47 AM, <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote:
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.
I hadn't thought on that before but I think you are right. The only question
here is writing data to memory or hd.
Thank you all,
Rui Carneiro
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