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Hmmm, I hadn't realized that the pipes in UNIX worked like that... But,
that explains why when I do this:
$ ps ax | grep pine
I get this:
1525 1 S 0:05 pine
1574 2 S 0:00 grep pine
as output. :-) How interesting.
- Mike
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On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Raider wrote:
> 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
> --
> ``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
>
>
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