From c24f258eba3a0d6d4c84704c8b925530f559132b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip	Eisenlohr <eisenlohr@egr.msu.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:03:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] now works with piped STDOUT | STDIN constructs.

---
 lib/damask/asciitable.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/damask/asciitable.py b/lib/damask/asciitable.py
index bc489d6a8..b6a30a066 100644
--- a/lib/damask/asciitable.py
+++ b/lib/damask/asciitable.py
@@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ class ASCIItable():
       self.labels    = firstline.split()
       self.headerLen = 1
     self.__IO__['validReadSize'] = len(self.labels)
-    self.__IO__['dataStart'] = self.__IO__['in'].tell()
+    try:
+      self.__IO__['dataStart'] = self.__IO__['in'].tell()
+    except IOError:
+      pass
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------
   def head_write(self):