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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: <19493@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 89 20:50:51 GMT
References: <747@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <19487@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services
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In article <19487@unix.cis.pitt.edu> ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>In article <747@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>> [CBM pipe: won't do 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.

Well, I just installed conman 1.3.2, and I'm no longer having this
problem.  I honestly can't say for sure whether or not that was the
problem, because it's been awhile since I've tried it.  At any rate, my
pipes are working reliably now.  :-)

Now if there was a way to expand wildcards and do 'foreach' type stuff
with the ARP shell, I'd be happy...  (no, spat and dpat *don't* cut it.)

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