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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Redirection and piping
Message-ID: <1989Dec11.195714.4132@uwasa.fi>
Date: 11 Dec 89 19:57:14 GMT
References: <89345.110313MHS108@PSUVM.BITNET>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <89345.110313MHS108@PSUVM.BITNET> MHS108@PSUVM.BITNET (Mark Solsman) writes:
>
>   Can any one out there explain how to use the redirection and the pipeline
>features with ms-dos? I have tried these damn things since I started using
>computers, yet have allways been unsuccessful. I can redirect the output to a
>destination, and I can somewhat pipe the output to another program(maybe). My
>problem is going the other way. I have a hard disk utility that makes you enter
>the drive number from the keyboard. I would like to redirect the drive numbers
>from another file, so that I could run that unattended. Any help would be
>greatly appreciated!

I am not going to try to give a piping lecture here, but if you have
the capability of getting files by anonymous ftp you might be
interested in getting /pc/ts/tsutlc16.arc and look at how the
DOUBLES.EXE program can be made to accept input from a YES files. 
But I am positive that someone will come with a good concise advice
here giving the outlines and principles rather than a mere reference
to an example. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi                                (Site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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