Nice! Any hope of it being ported to Linux? (or maybe it drinks 'wine'?) Always nice to have cross platform solutions.. (e.g. REXX) Using REXX to call PIPEs on Windows or Linux would be sweet.
Scott Rohling On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:04 AM, John Lynn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks. Some years back, I was a hard-core VM devotee, working in the > industry and loving it, and occasionally contributing to this forum. > > Back when CMS Pipelines were popular, I was a pipe addict, creating many > utilities and tools -- some of which may even be running to this day. I > always wanted to come up with a similar implementation for other platforms, > for instance Linux and Windows. > > About a year ago, someone did indeed create a Windows version. It's not the > same internally, but it works pretty well and the external command-line > interface is a faithful reproduction of the original, including multistream > pipes, many of the filters and drivers as CMS Pipelines, and a stage command > API to create your own. > > I know that there are many alternatives nowadays, especially on the *ix > platform, but if you find yourself on Windows and yearning for a good pipe, > this may just scratch the itch. > > http://tenfiftytwo.co.uk/pipelines/ > > > Here's an example pipe: > > pipe > <http://tenfiftytwo.co.uk/pipelines/Documentation%201.7/Pipelines.htm#The_pipe_command> > (*endchar > <http://tenfiftytwo.co.uk/pipelines/Documentation%201.7/Pipelines.htm#Specifying_pipe_options>* > ?) > > *< > <http://tenfiftytwo.co.uk/pipelines/Documentation%201.7/Stage%20command/Filein.htm>* > myfile.txt > > | a: *locate > <http://tenfiftytwo.co.uk/pipelines/Documentation%201.7/Stage%20command/Locate.htm>* > ‘friend’ > > | *change > <http://tenfiftytwo.co.uk/pipelines/Documentation%201.7/Stage%20command/Change.htm>* > ‘hello’ ‘goodbye’ > > | b: *faninany > <http://tenfiftytwo.co.uk/pipelines/Documentation%201.7/Stage%20command/Faninany.htm>* > > | *> > <http://tenfiftytwo.co.uk/pipelines/Documentation%201.7/Stage%20command/Fileout.htm>* > myfile.txt > > ? > > a: > > | *take > <http://tenfiftytwo.co.uk/pipelines/Documentation%201.7/Stage%20command/Take.htm>* > * > > | b: > > > Enjoy! > > >
