Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: ASyncRun() doesn't work with pipe:xxx! Message-ID: <6516@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 4 Sep 90 11:42:04 GMT References: <13920086@hpfelg.HP.COM> <2156@trlluna.trl.oz> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 16 In article <2156@trlluna.trl.oz> aduncan@rhea.trl.oz.au (Allan Duncan) writes: > I won't try and answer the original question (in part 'cause I haven't > looked at it in detail), but rather ask Steve _why_ he won't use Conman > pip: device? I find that it works well, and _is_ a real pipe c/f pipe: > which is just a kludge. Perhaps because he's planning on distributing his program and wants to minimise the amount of third-party software that is needed to run it? That's one of the reasons I avoid ARP myself, actually. The other being that I just don't trust it. (boy, is it going to be tough avoiding 2.0 though...) -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .