On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Kate T. Yoak k...@yoak.com 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
$
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 neat. Never
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Kate T. Yoak k...@yoak.com 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
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:44:52 -0800
Kate T. Yoak k...@yoak.com 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
