".GIF" files
Gary S. Trujillo
gst at gnosys.svle.ma.us
Thu Feb 21 18:26:52 AEST 1991
In <1991Feb7.204039.5842 at sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM>
bruce at sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM (Bruce Lilly) writes:
>cat filename.gif | remsh cray giftoppm '|' ppmtopgm '|' pgmtopbm | pbmto3b1
>:-)
I've never understood why some people insist on using cat(1) to get stuff
into the standard input of the lead program in a pipeline. I claim that:
cat a | b | c
is entirely equivalent in result to:
b < a | c
Right?
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Gary S. Trujillo gst at gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
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