Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Pipes Message-ID: <136735@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 6 Jun 90 06:17:21 GMT References: <2533@zipeecs.umich.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 20 In article <2533@zipeecs.umich.edu> (Ralph Seguin) writes: >Anybody got any idea when C= is going to get around to writing true pipes >(ala UNIX)? I suppose that I'm probably going to get flamed all over >the place for this one 8-) You wouldn't happen to be confusing pipes with the bit of syntactic sugar (the vertical bar) that the UNIX shells offer would you? If you can define "true pipe" it would help to answer the question, if you want the syntax I would suggest WShell, a commercial shell from Bill Hawes which offers this. I don't believe this is available in the 2.0 Amiga Shell (yet?, it's only beta). Anyway, looking forward to the definition you give... -- --Chuck McManis Sun Microsystems uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: Internet: cmcmanis@Eng.Sun.COM These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "I tell you this parrot is bleeding deceased!"