Chapter 7. Explaining the magic: the details
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Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
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William Safire |
What makes the procedure described here appear to be “magic” is not only the “high-tecness” of the tools involved, but also the highly frustrating fact that each one of the
tools involved expects its input in different directories and/or formats, making it really difficult for interfaces or pipes to match the output of one tool to the expected input of another. In this
chapter I will explain the inner working of the involved scripts that, ultimately, do one thing: ensure that what is expected will be found in its expected place, in the expected format.
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You don't need to read this chapter if you are not interested in the gory details. For getting things to work, the Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5 and Section 5.21 should suffice. But if you want to understand how things work,
then go on!
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