[Refdb-devel] refdbc -C addref & stdin

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Michael Smith writes:
 > um, has anybody actually had success at adding references to a RefDB
 > database via the "Add Reference" menu item Emacs?
 > 

Yes, me.

 > Or has anybody had success at adding references by piping standard input
 > to 'refdbc -C addref' on the command line?
 > 

Yes, me.

 > That is, when you try the following, does refdbc stop and wait for you
 > to enter data on standard input?
 > 
 >   refdbc -d refdb2  -t ris -C addref
 > 

Yes.

 > Or, if you do something like either of the following, does it work?
 > 
 >   refdbc -d refdb2  -t ris -C addref < data.ris
 > 
 >   cat data.ris | refdbc -d refdb2  -t ris -C addref
 > 

Yes.

 > None of those work for me. My refdbc doesn't seem to be able to read
 > from standard input at all.
 > 

Could it be you're working on Cygwin? The data-waiting-on-stdin
autodetection does not work on Cygwin, unfortunately, so if you want
to do any of the above on Cygwin you have to use the -f stdin switch.

regards,
Markus


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