Hello, this is a mail for Ulrich Drepper the programmer of the gnu programm iconv, please confirm me in any case you read the mail and if you are Ulrich Drepper and not anymore the developer of iconv please send me the mail address of the current developer. I have some feedback for the program iconv, i like it very much because it can convert nearly any character encoding <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding> to any other:) Because that i wanted to use it in my shell script to translate a stream from one divice to another and back so that they could communicate. But the problem was it didn’t worked because iconv isn’t capable of streaming. What i mean with this is everytime i used unix shell commands i was able to pipe it to somewhere else while the input is still running. so i can send files thought gzip (compressing) with netcat thought the network and on another computer again to gzip (decompressing) and save it as file. here the data will be transfered over the network before the compressing is done... if i use iconv it seams that it loads everithing to my ram and dont start the converting until the end reached. I tryed that out with a very big file and indeed he did it as i expected: while true; do echo "hallo öäü" >> /tmp/testbigfilewithiconv; done while true; do cat /tmp/testbigfilewithiconv | cat >> /tmp/testbigfilewithiconv; done #yes two cat's one dont wanted to write in its own file... ls -h -s /tmp/testbigfilewithiconv 1,3G /tmp/testbigfilewithiconv #wou big enough #let it go: iconv --to IBM850 < /tmp/testbigfilewithiconv > /tmp/testbigfilewithiconv1 the memory display from my computer you can see in the attachment i think that is a very inefizeit way, if i didnt had anought memory and swap the kernel had to kill iconv to prevent other processes. so please improfe iconv in that way. it sould get streaming capabilities so its starts translating until the end is reached and it sould do it do it directly while hes getting stuff. so i can type in text and i get every letter translated exact after i type it in. i hope you can do this or suggest me a program with this capabilities. greetings -- |_|0|_| |_|_|0| |0|0|0| http://treaki.tk/ http://treaki.ath.cx/
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