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From: bjornl@sics.se (Bj|rn Lisper)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: piped i/o for TeX under unix ?
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.161345.11732@sics.se>
Date: 1 Oct 90 16:13:45 GMT
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Is there any clean way to use TeX with redirected i/o in a unix environment?
I fooled around a little and got it to accept input from the standard input.
The dvi output appeared on a file "texput.log". It produced a lot of ugly
messages though (even though the dvi file was OK) and I found no way to
redirect the output through, say, a pipe.

It would be a nice feature to fit TeX into chains of text-producing commands
cleanly.

Bjorn Lisper