Re: progress report on piping on VMS

[Ed James, TCS Inc, 410-295-1919, [EMAIL PROTECTED]]

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:45:58 -0500, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >Well, we now have (for VMS 7+) unixish times from the CRTL, including
> >TZ support; and paths for looking for commands.  No doubt more unixish
> >features will be added (wasn't there some discussion on comp.os.vms
> >recently about a new system service using 'NUL terminated strings'
> >instead of descriptors?)....I expect to see piping and i/o redirection
> >on the command line soon, if it hasn't been added already.
> 
> They're retiring the services that take null-terminated strings in favor of 
> ones that take descriptors. Just got announced today.

Would you please tell us where this was announced?

Thank you,  Ed

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