Re: redirect rtf output

[Daniel Speck <dspeck@xxxxxxx>]

On Unix couldn't you do something like:

openjade ... -o /dev/stdout

-dan

Brandon Ibach wrote:

> Quoting Holger Klawitter <holger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Is there any way to let the rtf backend to put its output to stdout?
> >
>    As far as I can tell from the code, no (at least, not in the
> version of OpenJade which I have, which is a little out of date).
> However, here is a patch (untested) which should allow you to use the
> -o option to specify an output filename of -, which will cause the
> output to be sent to standard output.  This will only work with the
> RTF, TeX and FOT backends, however.
>    Let me know if it works. ;)
>
> -Brandon :)
>
> (I initially posted this on Friday, but I forgot that the DSSSList
> doesn't allow attachments.  Tony kindly reminded me (thanks!), so here
> it is in "unattached" form.)
>
> --------
> *** jade.cxx.orig       Wed Oct 13 18:14:40 1999
> --- jade.cxx    Fri Jul 21 15:53:11 2000
> ***************
> *** 150,154 ****
>     default:
>       outputFilename_ += 0;
> !     if (!outputFile_.open(outputFilename_.data())) {
>         message(JadeMessages::cannotOpenOutputError,
>               StringMessageArg(CmdLineApp::convertInput(outputFilename_.data())),
> --- 150,157 ----
>     default:
>       outputFilename_ += 0;
> !     if (!strcmp(outputFilename_.data(), "-")) {
> !       outputFile_.attach(1, 0);
> !     }
> !     else if (!outputFile_.open(outputFilename_.data())) {
>         message(JadeMessages::cannotOpenOutputError,
>               StringMessageArg(CmdLineApp::convertInput(outputFilename_.data())),
>
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