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From: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: ".GIF" files
Message-ID: <993@gnosys.svle.ma.us>
Date: 21 Feb 91 07:26:52 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.215717.26551@cbnewsj.att.com> <1991Feb7.204039.5842@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM>
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In <1991Feb7.204039.5842@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM>
	bruce@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@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts              {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst


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