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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
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Subject: Re: Filters (was ABE Source & introduction)
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Date: 18 Mar 90 01:54:08 GMT
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The commands:

type foo | bar > output     !=     bar < foo > output

in MS-DOS, even though the final result is the same.  MS-DOS, brain-dead
as it is, writes to an intermediate file in the first case listed above.

Question:  Is there any way to force MS-DOS to use a ramdisk for the
intermediate file?  MS-DOS seems to use the current directory, so cd'ing
to the ramdisk would work, but sometimes I don't want the ramdisk to be
the current working directory.

If it is possible to do this, it might make things faster.  I still
won't like MS-DOS, however, because things like:

bar | tee foo | more

can't work like they should (and do on a real O/S).

Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6      kjh@usc.edu      ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh