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From: ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP Bits & Pieces
Keywords: ARP PIP Handler
Message-ID: <19487@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 9 Sep 89 13:55:27 GMT
References: <747@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services
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In article <747@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>The 1.3 pipe handler and PIP: are two entirely different animals. CBM's pipe
>handler is for named pipes only, and though it is a good one for what it does,
>it is not useful for doing things like:

>	list | grep rw-d

And neither is PIP:, at least with AShell.  list | grep rw-d will work
if the directory isn't too large, but anytime I try to pass too much
information through PIP: like this, it crashes.  For instance, the above
example on a large directory.  Or using "alias help zcat docs:[] | more"
will crash almost every time, unless the doc file is very small.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?


-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cis.unix.pitt.edu