Hi there,
Here is another interesting question: is it possible to get the image
data out somewhere other than disk? I attempted specifying piped name
for image, "|out.pl" , for instance. It simply escapes the pipe and
creates a file by that name! Funny. :-)
Once I have Gimp::Image, I would l
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Kate T. Yoak wrote:
> Here is another interesting question: is it possible to get the image
> data out somewhere other than disk?
Not by typing something funky in the save-as field. You could always
make a named pipe, I suppose:
$ mknod pipe.gif p
$ out.pl < pi
> Not by typing something funky in the save-as field. You could always
> make a named pipe, I suppose:
>
> $ mknod pipe.gif p
> $ out.pl < pipe.gif
>
> That will block trying to read the pipe; go to gimp and save the image
> to "pipe.gif" and then out.pl will start getting data...
>
>
This is
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Kate T. Yoak wrote:
>> $ mknod pipe.gif p
>> $ out.pl < pipe.gif
> This is neat. Never encountered mknod . Thanks for passing along
> something this useful!
Ah, named pipes can be quite useful, mostly for one-off situations
where there's a better solution that ju
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:44:52 -0800
"Kate T. Yoak" wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Here is another interesting question: is it possible to get the image
> data out somewhere other than disk? I attempted specifying piped name
> for image, "|out.pl" , for instance. It simply escapes the pipe and
> create
