pipe binary data

Hi Christian,

I'm no expert by any means, but this sounds odd to me --
more like
something is broken with your scripts rather than the
piping. The
reason I say so is because I can pipe /dev/random and
/dev/dsp to a
file without any problem; you'd think that I'd hit the same
problem at
some point given the (pseudo-)random nature of those pipes;
but I never
have.

Regards,
Jordan

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Jordan, some more digging revealed this was related to a
parsing bug in
REXML. It somehow didnt recognize a closing tag...so it
wasnt related
to the pipe afterall.
thanks-
christian

MonkeeSage wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> I'm no expert by any means, but this sounds odd to me
-- more like
> something is broken with your scripts rather than the
piping. The
> reason I say so is because I can pipe /dev/random and
/dev/dsp to a
> file without any problem; you'd think that I'd hit the
same problem at
> some point given the (pseudo-)random nature of those
pipes; but I never
> have.
> 
> Regards,
> Jordan