pipe < name type | ftp ftp://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/place_to_put_it (If I put it as the 1st stage I can FTP to VM.)
PIPE stages use exactly the same philosophy of most UNIX commands. Do one thing and do it well. Then put all these little stages together to make it do interesting stuff. Unlike UNIX PIPEs you can have multiple pipelines running concurrently each connecting back into the main pipe or diverging from it. You can have primary, secondary, tertiary (etc etc) input and output stages. Being to have user written stages (just like awk scripts) that you can write in REXX (primarily) or any other language allows you to extend it enormously (just like the FTP stage above). -----Original Message----- This isn't the same thing. Somebody had to write the STRIP command for VM. And the STRIP command only does that one thing. The Unix/Linux cut|sed is a more general facility that took much less programming effort than what you have to do under VM to get the same facilities. You didn't show how you would do an FTP transfer under VM.
