On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:49:19 +0000, Malcolm McLean wrote:

I've never used standard output for binary data. It might be necessary
for webservers that serve images. But it strikes me as a poor design decision.

Very common in the *nix world. E.g. producing a nicely-typeset view of a
man page:

gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man7/string_copying.7.gz |
groff -kman -Tpdf |
okular - &

That second stage in the pipeline produces PDF output, which the viewer
can display directly, without having to write it to a file.

I mean, how else would you do it?

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