13 .TH buf 1 "5 February 2005" "Edgeware tools"
15 buf \- buffer stdin to a file
25 program writes standard input to a temporary file. It then runs
27 .IR "command arguments " ... " stdinfile"
29 and exits with whatever exit status that exited with.
37 Arrange that the temporary file has the suffix
41 is included unless you provide one yourself.
43 This is particularly useful for programs which want to seek their
44 standard input, for example PostScript viewers. A typical invocation
45 might be something like
47 man \-Tps buf | buf \-e.ps gv
50 Doesn't exit correctly if subprogram was killed by a signal.
52 Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>