Thanks for the information, Dan, Aaron, S�bastien and anyone else I may not of mentioned.
I asked my instructor, "isn't a pipe a fifo, first in, first out?" He flat out said no. I thought, hmm, how is windows going to handle a large amounts of data through a pipe? Are we going to write to a file first, store it all in memory... So I asked, when using a pipe, it would cache output from a source, then dump it to where ever its piped to? my instructor said yes. At that point I had a feeling this isn't making total sense. I was not insulted, just fired up for research. I'm there to learn, and verify my knowledge, otherwise that school to me is a waste of money. My final project is to recomend a better network for xy - situation / company. My choice is SAIT, and my choice is replacing a lot of closed source licenses with OSS mainly of GPL. In practice I'd like to have all MS licenses droped, Since MS windows is, in some way, an industry standard (or monopoly in some eye's) The school needs to have it. Any idea what I could do in this situation? Share a Windows machine in a LAB... multi-boot... NFS host and VMware... I'd like to see their budjet for computers there also. That I won't ever see either. I have yet to read the fine print of MS EUA's, of which I am not allowed to see SAIT's EUA. An EUA is a contract, so this is understandable. I fail to see how myself, as a student, are supposed to obey portions of the EUA if I am unable to read what I am agreeing to when I log on. Maybe that is in school policy book... More research... Thing is, Windows users don't care, they click accept, accept, accept, ok, ok, ok... 1:30am, sorry for bad grammar and spelling. My bad, its bed time. Richard. Faster we rid the world of windows, more prepared we are for the space age. Take care, thanks again!
