RTFM... (really: sed -n 100,115p)

[Rahul Dhesi]

In article <1033 at philmds.UUCP> leo at philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>Are you
>implying that each filter should read all its input ??

Yes, unless it knows that a process providing that input is prepared to
gracefully handle the situation when writing to stdout causes an
error.  From the user's point of view,

     % mypgm | myfilter
     ... output from myfilter ...
     mypgm: error writing to stdout: broken pipe
     %

is not a friendly situation, because it makes it seem that something
went wrong.  Compare this with:

     % mypgm | myfilter
     ... output from myfilter ...
     %
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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