Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!pawl!shadow From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Relying on ARP (was Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist (one among thousands!)) Message-ID: Date: 5 Aug 89 21:47:31 GMT References: <12878@well.UUCP> <26758@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <20904@cup.portal.com> <26915@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11107@polya.Stanford.EDU> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Distribution: na Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 19 In-reply-to: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU's message of 4 Aug 89 06:55:23 GMT On 4 Aug 89 06:55:23 GMT, rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) said: Rokicki> I've always wanted to be able to fopen("|lpr", "w"), for Rokicki> instance, to spool things automatically, or anything else Rokicki> with pipes. Why hasn't any operating system (that I know of) Rokicki> allowed file names to also specify new processes? I mean, I Rokicki> can open `par:' or `ser:' or even `speak:'. Just a thought. par:, ser: and speak: are devices, as in /dev/* under Unix. What if you wanted to open a file named "|lpr"? Besides, there's popen()... Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2214 12th Street, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 271-0750 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.