Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 27 May 2007 11:18:55 +0100:
> On Saturday 26 May 2007 13:29:34 Duncan wrote: > >> The | (vertical line) symbol is called a "pipe". > > ... in Unixy systems. FWIW, it was used the same way (but to a far more limited extent) on MSDOS, and AFAIK continues to be used that way in command prompt windows even now (tho I've no direct experience beyond W98, as I decided it was time to upgrade to Linux instead of XP, when I realized XP stood for eXPrivacy, due to its anti-privacy functionality, among other things). It was called a "pipe" there too, IIRC. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
