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Re: write_gif to stdout ? [message #77282]

Thu, 18 August 2011 21:28

Michael Galloy
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On 8/18/11 3:27 pm, George Millward wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am building an IDL program which will be running offline under UNIX.
> Every time my program is run - it produces a .gif image.
>
> Is there any way to get this .gif file to be written to stdout -
> rather than saving it as an actual file ?
>
> I notice that LUN = -1 is stdout ..... but WRITE_GIF doesn't specify
> LUN, just a filename.
>
> Any ideas ?

If you really want to do this (it's not documented, so it might not work
in future versions), try ENCODE_GIF:

IDL> encode_gif, -1, bytarr(10, 10) + 5B
% Loaded DLM: GIF.

H° Á*\È°aÂ;

See the code for write_gif.pro for an example of what is normally
written in the header.

Mike
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		Re: write_gif to stdout ? By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 18 August 2011 21:28
		Re: write_gif to stdout ? By: Brian Wolven on Thu, 18 August 2011 15:50
		Re: write_gif to stdout ? By: George Millward on Thu, 18 August 2011 15:41
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