[comp.emacs] Can emacsclient read from a pipe?

m1jjh00@fed.frb.gov (Jeffrey J. Hallman) (03/24/89)

	I'm running Splus from Statistical Sciences in a shell buffer.
It has a help() function which runs a program that formats the
requested help document in man style, redirecting its output either to
a file or through a pipe to a pager (e.g., more).  I've hacked it to
do the following:

	(i) Direct the formatted output to a file /tmp/xxx.shelp,
where xxx is the topic help was requested for, then

	(ii) Run   emacsclient /tmp/xxx.shelp &

This works fine, except that it's slower than I'd like.  If I could
just pipe the output from the formatter into its own Emacs buffer it
would save some time.  I don't want to keep the .shelp file anyway.  

	Is there a way I can do this?  



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