Re: lynx-dev lynx -stdin ?

[David Combs]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 05:10:16AM -0500, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > 
> > Lynx Developer(s), 
> >  
> >     Have you considered adding a -stdin option, to allow accepting HTML 
> > directly from a pipe (no URL needed) ?  e.g. such that this would work: 
> >  
> > > dynamically_generate_html_program | lynx -stdin 
> >  
> > maybe intially only in batch mode, e.g. to de-HTML-ify text-ish documents 
> 
> The topic has come up occasionally (not as an explicit option, but asking
> why lynx doesn't read from a pipe - which is harder, but doable on some
> systems by making it read from specific entries under /dev).
> 
> -- an option would be doable...

If such an option IS ever done, why not just a simple hyphen,
just like lots of OTHER tools do:

   cat foo.html | lynx -

Like that.

David