on("data") without pipe()?

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Hey! I'm new to streams, and am using the morestreams lib indirectly through https://github.com/substack/shp2json. (shp2json returns a BufferedStream of geojson.) I'm wondering, is there a way to get the BufferedStream to emit data events without first pipe()ing it somewhere? Is this normal behavior for streams?

I'm currently pipe()ing to process.stdout in order to get the data flowing, collecting the chunks in on("data"), turning them into a Buffer, and finally into a string for JSON.parse(). Is there a better way to manipulate a BufferedStream?