On Fri, 6 Jun 2014 11:54:44 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >Do you know if DFSORT supports allocating SORTIN and SORTOUT to UNIX pipes >(FIFOs)? The book mentions UNIX files, but not "named pipes" (FIFOs). That >might be an interesting way to emulate the INPUT and OUTPUT procedure >facility that the COBOL SORT verb has, rather than trying to implement the >equivalent of the E15 and E35 exit points in C. > I just tried it successfully with SORTIN allocated to a POSIX pipe (not a BatchPipe). The spirit of UNIX, suggested by the first three letters of its name, is that "everything is a file", and all files are (mostly) the same. The hazard might arise if DFSORT attempted to reposition its SORTIN, not possible with special files.
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