Mock, George wrote:
Hello!When I try this on Unix, it runs pretty fast ... spew_10MB_or_more | perl my_script.pl This finishes in seconds, even though the command spew_10MB_or_more creates very large text files that often exceed 10 MB. When I do the same thing on a DOS shell under Windows XP, it takes minutes! [...]
AFAIK, unix pipes have some functionality that DOS pipes don't have. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
