".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?

-- 
    Gary S. Trujillo                            gst at gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts              {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst



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