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From: mks@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP Bits & Pieces
Keywords: ARP PIP Handler
Message-ID: <7862@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 19:07:58 GMT
References: <437@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 31

In article <437@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> dbl@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (David Lawson) writes:
>
>     Recently I got the ARP 1.3 Distribution which included (among ohter things)
>AShell.  I like AShell and would really like to use it to the fullest but, alas,where can I find the PIP: Handler that is needed to do pipes.  Some more docs
>would be nice too and the programmers stuff but lets start with PIP:.  Can anyone
>direct me to PIP:????

PIP: is part of ConMan.  You just mount it a bit differently.

>
>    Another little question, I am not trying to flame anyone but, why
> must everyshell use its own pipe handler, 1.3 has been out long enough 
>to be recognized
>as a standard and its pipe handler seems to work ok.
>
Since the person how wrote AShell liked the advanced features of PIP:
PIPE: in 1.3 is a "named pipe" while PIP: is a co-opened pipe.

>    Dave Lawson
>
>
> AMIGA -- Computer for the Best of us.


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