[BRLTTY] problems installing brltty-5.4

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by John Covici on 2016/12/07 at 11:24 -0500]

>But, if I take the output of nsgmlpre and put it to a file and read it
>with nsgmls then it reads the whole file and works properly.  It has
>something to do with the pipe, maybe signalling end of file when it
>should not or something strange.

No, your strace shows that nsgmls isn't reading end-of-file until all of the 
text has been read. It shows nsgmls doing eight reads that each retrieve 8192 
bytes, then one read that retrieves 143 bytes, and then a read that yields 
end-of-file.

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