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From: bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Why use U* over VMS
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Date: 5 Nov 90 16:43:33 GMT
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In article <69986@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> hughes@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (larry hughes) writes:
>In article <1380@tharr.UUCP> sweh@tharr.UUCP (Stephen Harris) writes:
>>How in VMS do you have filters and pipelines?
>>eg, what would be the VMS (DCL?) equivalent of
>>	getso - | tbl | pic | eqn | rof | col | sqps | lpr -Ppost < file
>>
>>Is there an equivalent, or would it need a lot of temporary files?
>
>Yes, you would need a lot of temporary files.

Would a POSIX-compliant VMS fix this?

				--Blair
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