Re: lynx-dev lynx -stdin ?

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 05:10:16AM -0500, T.E.Dickey wrote: 
> > >  
> > > Lynx Developer(s),  
> > >   
> > >   Have you considered adding a -stdin option, to allow accepting HTML  
> > > directly from a pipe (no URL needed) ?  e.g. such that this would work:  
> > >   
> > > > dynamically_generate_html_program | lynx -stdin  
> > >   
> > > maybe intially only in batch mode, e.g. to de-HTML-ify text-ish documents 
> > >  
> >  
> > The topic has come up occasionally (not as an explicit option, but asking 
> > why lynx doesn't read from a pipe - which is harder, but doable on some 
> > systems by making it read from specific entries under /dev). 
> >  
> > -- an option would be doable... 
>  
> If such an option IS ever done, why not just a simple hyphen, 
> just like lots of OTHER tools do: 
>  
>    cat foo.html | lynx - 

lynx already interprets "-" to read options and arguments from standard input.
so either we drop that or add a new option.
  
> David 

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