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From: jbrown@herron.uucp (Jordan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dBase / FoxBase Problem with producing NUL
Message-ID: <324@herron.uucp>
Date: 11 Apr 90 09:32:05 GMT
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timk@xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) writes:
> For DOS:
> <write translated output to an aux file>
> type <aux file> | trans > lpt1:

> For Xenix:
> <Write translated output to an aux file> 
> cat <aux file> | trans | lp

I don't understand why people keep wanting a "cat" step in commands like
this.  The shell will do input redirection, even under DOS...

for some file "auxfile"...

DOS:
trans <auxfile >lpt1

XENIX:
trans <auxfile | lp

(incidentally, under DOS don't name your aux file "aux" or you'll
be in trouble...)
-- 
Jordan Brown
jbrown@jato.jpl.nasa.gov