From bbd8ee77641288bb9051c99bc90d294ec1baa7cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 17:42:59 +0200 Subject: There is no reason to add support for pipes in blind-rewrite-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- man/blind-rewrite-head.1 | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'man/blind-rewrite-head.1') diff --git a/man/blind-rewrite-head.1 b/man/blind-rewrite-head.1 index b1e6efd..2429649 100644 --- a/man/blind-rewrite-head.1 +++ b/man/blind-rewrite-head.1 @@ -57,10 +57,22 @@ This of course means that cannot be used as there is not way to know the geometry or format of the video if it does not have a head. +.SH RETIONALE +.B blind-rewrite-head +only support regular files because combining +.BR blind-read-head (1), +.BR blind-write-head (1), +and +.BR cat (1) +is sufficient for doing the same operation on pipes, +but not on regular files that are too large to store +two copies of on disc. .SH SEE ALSO .BR blind (7), .BR blind-from-video (1), -.BR blind-split (1) +.BR blind-split (1), +.BR blind-read-head (1), +.BR blind-write-head (1) .SH AUTHORS Mattias Andrée .RI < maandree@kth.se > -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2