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From: floyd@starsend.UUCP (Floyd Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re^2: dir | more
Message-ID: <0023@starsend.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 90 05:03:31 GMT
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We have seen plenty answers as to why *a* file appears
when using a pipe, including how the file is used instead
of memory (as in UNIX) and that later versions of DOS
place the file in the root directory of the current drive.
However, the original question (and you can see this if you
run the "dir \ | more" experiment) asked why there are two
files created.

I'm still waiting to see a response to that!
If the implementation of a pipe in DOS is to
create a temporary file, why are two files created?

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