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27.0.50; Cuonfusing documentation about pipe processes

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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 30349 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#30349: 27.0.50; Cuonfusing documentation about pipe processes
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:31:35 +0000

Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
>>> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:53:12 -0500
>>> Cc: 30349 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>> 
>>> > ":buffer BUFFER -- BUFFER is the buffer (or buffer-name) to associate
>>> > with the process.  Process output goes at the end of that buffer,
>>> > unless you specify an output stream or filter function to handle the
>>> > output."
>>> >
>>> > => How do you specify an output stream?
>>> 
>>> I don't think there is such a thing.  That phrase seems to have been
>>> copied across all the make-*-process functions.
>>
>> And is wrong in all of them?
>
> I think so.
>
>> Could it be that the phrase originally meant shell-style redirection?
>
> Perhaps, but none of those functions support that, as far as I know.

No relation to '(elisp) Output Streams'?

-- 
Basil

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