[OSM-dev] osmosis and bzcat in windows

[Maarten Deen]

On 2013-11-08 13:59, amrit karmacharya wrote:
> Can someone expalin this line 
> 
> BZCAT [1] IS THE TOOL TO USE EVEN ON WINDOWS IF YOU WANT TO HAVE GOOD
> PERFORMANCE. HOWEVER, /DEV/STDIN IS NOT A VALID PATH ON WINDOWS.
> USE CONIN$ INSTEAD.
> 
> It is written here [2]
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1]
> http://ossbuild.googlecode.com/svn-history/r366/trunk/Shared/Build/Windows/Win32/bin/bzcat.exe
> [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis#Windows_notes

It means that when you are using windows, bzcat is the best tool to use 
and when you use one of the examples on that page (or anywhere in 
general when you want to use /dev/stdin), you have to replace /dev/stdin 
with CONIN$.

/dev/stdin is not a valid path on Windows.
I have not tried this, but maybe it should be extended to also say that 
/dev/stdout should be replaced by CONOUT$.

Regards,
Maarten