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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
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Subject: Re: Relying on ARP (was Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist (one among thousands!))
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Date: 4 Aug 89 06:55:23 GMT
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> Note to AmigaDOS bashers: "*" is another one of the things that
> AmigaDOS does right that Unix does wrong. With this, you don't have to
> hack every program to understand some magic token to mean "read from
> standard input instead of opening the file." Good Unix systems (like
> the 4BSD ones I run :-) have something similar but more powerful in
> /dev/fd.

Hi, Mike!

I've always wanted to be able to fopen("|lpr", "w"), for instance, to
spool things automatically, or anything else with pipes.  Why hasn't
any operating system (that I know of) allowed file names to also specify
new processes?  I mean, I can open `par:' or `ser:' or even `speak:'.
Just a thought.

> Il brilgue: les toves lubricilleux
> Se gyrent en vrillant dans le guave,
> Enmimes sont les gougebosqueux,
> Et le momerade horsgrave.

Clever; I like this.

-tom