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1997.01.23 00:25 "Re: Reading from standard in", by Dwight Kelly
There is a specification for streaming TIFF developed by SGI for the Impressario products. It is called STIFF and basically is a very limited subset of TIFF v6. -----Original Message----- From: Helge Blischke [SMTP:H.Blischke@srz-berlin.de] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 1997 4:15 PM To: Todd D. Newman Cc: tiff@sgi.com Subject: Re: Reading from standard in Todd D. Newman wrote: > > This is probably a FAQ, but I don't see an answer anywhere. Is libtiff > supposed > to support standard in/standard out a la Unix? If you look at > TIFFClientOpen > you'll see it doing strlen on the file name. This doesn't work for a null > file name. > > My question is whether this is a bug or a feature. > > Yours in appalling naivete, > > /tdn > Todd Newman I think it's a feature, as TIFF files ar *NOT* stream files; for almost every operation on TIFF files you must have random access to tags, strips, tiles and so on. Helge Blischke