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From: waggoner@dtg.nsc.com (Mark Waggoner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PIPEs
Message-ID: <1462@icebox.nsc.com>
Date: 19 Oct 90 23:31:48 GMT
References: <1990Oct19.044319.4851@engin.umich.edu> <1990Oct19.153416.12047@cs.dal.ca>
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In article <1990Oct19.153416.12047@cs.dal.ca> dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Colin DeWolfe) writes:
>In article <1990Oct19.044319.4851@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>>Does anybody know whether or not Amiga OS 2.0 will support "true pipes",
>>ie pipes ala UNIX?  I am considering writing a true pipe handler, but
>>I don't want to waste my time if C= is going to do it for me 8-).
>
>Not yet, at least in my release KS 36.143 WB36.68 (2.01) there isn't
>anything.
>
>I want true pipes so I think you should go for it.  :-)

I don't know if this is quite what you want, but ConMan, the
console handler by William Hawes can be mounted as a pipe handler and
may provide what you are looking for.  How exactly would you expect a
"true" pipe handler to work, without significant cooperation from the
shell that is using the pipes.  Conman is on a fish disk somewhere
back there in the less than 300 range, maybe even less than 200.





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