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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> I wonder how we got so far off subject.

Deleted old subject lines...

> On subject, now that I have installed the full wget, it is counting 
> all the bytes for me
> 6900K .> .......... .......... .........
> while I play wdav with wget -O - http://|mpg123 -
> 
> A friend who tried straight mpg321 without wget said it stopped 
> playing after 10 minutes, so wget is not the cause of this.

mpg321 or mpg123? mpg123 hasn't ever died on me in midstream, except
when I use it on a wget'ed file (the file has an EOF, which mpg123
takes as a signal to quit).

> I already have BL3 set up and could 
> install the netpbm programs there and chroot to it.

Odd that I never even thought of that. Yes, this seems to be a good
solution. Learning to chroot is a very useful skill.

> >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/libc5" %1 %2
> 
> Isn't %1 %2 two arguments?  I would need to specify the program and 
> the file it acts on (tiff or pnm).

Oh yeah, in ash I believe it's $1 $2, not %1 %2. $1 = program name,
$2 = first argument to a program.

> >> Then type
> >>
> >> libc5 tifftopnm filename.tiff > filename.png  ?
> >>
> >> Similarly for pnmtotiff pngtopnm pnmtopng.
> >
> > Yes. Of course, you're limited to just one argument. I would do
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/libc5" exec "*@"


Another typo. :( It should be exec "$@". Dollar sign instead of
asterisk.

> I thought exec was only used in X.

It is used anywhere. It basically means to have the program
which is exec'ed take over the script. Any line after a
successful exec line is ignored.

> What does *@ mean 

You should recognize the correct one: $@. The bzcat script I
posted earlier uses it. It's equivalent to $1 $2 $3 $4 $5...
ad infinitum.

> and how would 
> I run tifftopnm with this script?  Do I substitute tifftpnm for 
> "*@"?

You would run it the same way as the %1 %2 version that you made.
It just allows you many more arguments.

David
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