On Nov 20, 2012, at 09:50, John P. Hartmann wrote: > I forget whether I test the file mode. Or for that matter whether BFS > supports named pipes. Give it a whirl. > Our archaic site doesn't provide SFS, which I believe is a prerequisite for BFS, so no whirl. But the administrator who mandated that policy retired this year, so there might be hope.
There's "BFSXECUTE mkfifo", so named pipes appear to be supported. And Endicott pipes has a BFS driver. Would that need to do anything special for named pipes rather than other byte stream files? > CMS OpenExtensions do not support fork(), which should answer the last > question. > But they have spawn (BPX1SPN), which should suffice, even though it has limitations. z/OS USS Rexx also doesn't support "SYSCALL fork". I deal with it. > On 20 November 2012 17:45, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> I may have been rash; shortsighted. Could one use BFS drivers >> to connect to FIFOs connected to OpenCMS filters? That might >> do what you want -- awk, grep, sed, regular expressions! And, >> in place of XLATE, iconv! -- gil
