13 .TH buf 1 "5 February 2005" "Edgeware tools"
15 buf \- buffer stdin to a file
23 program writes standard input to a temporary file. It then runs
25 .IR "command arguments " ... " stdinfile"
27 and exits with whatever exit status that exited with.
29 This is particularly useful for programs which want to seek their
30 standard input, for example PostScript viewers. A typical invokation
31 might be something like
36 Doesn't exit correctly if subprogram was killed by a signal.
38 Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>