On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Michael Trausch wrote:
> I'll tell ya, as far as the CL is concerned, I used the DOS CL for a long
> time (about seven years) as my primary computer access. And even then, I
> didn't know all there was... example: pipes. In DOS, there was really
> only one use for a pipe:
> A>TYPE FILENAME.EXT | MORE <ENTER>
> You couldn't even do something like this:
> A>TYPE FILENAME.EXT | PRINT <ENTER>
That's because a dos pipe isn't a 'real' pipe. Part of it's
limitation is imposed by the fact that dos isn't multitasking. So a real
pipe would launch the first command, than the second and so on without
waiting for the previous command to end. Than it will connect the output
of the first with the imput of the second and so on. And this will be
done in real time. The sad part for m$ users is although dos7 is somehow
multitasking when run in a window this feature wasn't corrected.
Raider
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