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Subject: [9fans] hget
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:42:01 +0100
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i just noticed that hget always seeks to the start of its output
fd, which meant that the script i was trying to run:

	{for(i in $urls) hget $i} > allurls

can't work. (and it does seem reasonable to be able to pipe hget
through other commands, etc).

a simple fix won't work, due to the "partial content" error,
and the fact that hget restarts after error.

does anyone know how common these conditions are?

i often do:

	<hget someurl

in acme (highlight, then middle-button click, to substitute the
contents of the url); i realise now that this won't always work.

should hget get to a temporary file when writing to stdout,
or avoid retry, or... ?

has anyone got strong views on this?