Thanks!
I *THOUGHT* I remembered there was a simple way of doing it in Linux --
just couldn't remember what that way was! That should do PRECISELY what I
need. Another of the wonders of /proc!!
pete
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 6 10:52:21 2000
> To: Pete Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: making <command> [options] <infile> <outfile> work with STDIN/STDOUT
>
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Pete Peterson wrote:
>
> > I can do"
> > ps2pdf -r300 -g3300x5100 infile.ps outfile.pdf
> >
> > But I'd really like to have a FILTER that might do something like:
> >
> > program_making_ps | postscript2pdf [opts] | uuencode widget.pdf | mail whoever
> >
> > Obviously, I could make "postscript2pdf" be a script that wrote STDIN to a
> > temp file, ran ps2pdf to create another temp file, output that to STDOUT,
> > and deleted the temp file, but I thought I remembered there was some less
> > ugly way to accomplish that with a wrapper that didn't involve creating
> > temporary files.
> >
>
> I don't know if its the method you remeber or not but a program's stdio
> can be address as files (on linux anyway) as /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2}. So
> you could something like...
>
> ps2pdf -r300 -g3300x5100 /proc/self/fd/0 /proc/self/fd/1
>
> ... which is kind of a round about way of telling ps2pdf to read from
> stdin and write to stdout.
>
> M.
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