Hi Raynos,
Thank you for your reply. I just want to confirm: did you mean the .pipe() 
from the new streams, 
i.e. https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/lib/_stream_readable.js#L296?

On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:42:46 AM UTC-5, Raynos wrote:
>
> Look at the implementation of pipe. Rewrite it so that it reads from 
> multiple inputs.
>
> The key points here is calling read with a fixed n and then calling write 
> on the output with a list of buffers. 
>
> If any readable stream returns less then n keep the chunks around until 
> that stream is readable then alter your read(n) calls to get up to your n 
> again and then call write. 
>
> Pipe's default logic is to end the writable when the first readable ends. 
> You may want to change that.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Alex <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Hi all, 
>>
>> I am trying to synchronize multiple read Streams so that I can process 
>> equivalent bytes from them. For example, if there are multiple input 
>> streams created with fs.createReadStream(), I need to process bytes from 
>> the same position in all the files into  a new value that is written to an 
>> output write Stream. I'm trying not to use Buffers, because I want to 
>> handle a potentially large amount of data. I could use fs.read() for the 
>> case of input files and just read from the same position in each file, but 
>> I want this to be general and operate on generic streams that are not 
>> necessarily formed from a file.
>>
>> Is this possible? Are there any solutions out there that have the same or 
>> similar functionality?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>>
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