Re: Re: Writing de/compressed data to a terminal policy

[p . z . l]

a solution solution

$ plzip.exe -c a.txt | cat > nul

(or the equivalent to 'cat' on Windows)

Problem solved. :-)

Cat is slow in windoze. It is not a solution. It would be if it was allowed to force like pigz does.

(or the equivalent to 'cat' on Windows)

I dont think there is, unless you use one  from cygwin or msys.

BTW. using -o is not going to help either. It is exactly the same thing.

Assume that plzip.exe allow to force output:

~~~

% ./lzip.exe -o nul test.txt

lzip: nul: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.

% ./plzip.exe -o nul test.txt

plzip: nul: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.

% ./plzip.exe -f -o nul test.txt

~~~

It all grows out of the fact that the nul is not a file in windows. It is a feature, that is present in every directory and isatty correctly points that there is no such file. But it is not a problem if you allow to force output.

I have already make one that does just that. If you dont like it, fine.

I just pointed out the issue. What you do with that issue is not my business. No any more.