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From: dnb@meshugge.media.mit.edu (David N. Blank)
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Subject: Re: Why use U* over VMS
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Date: 7 Nov 90 18:21:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz's message of 6 Nov 90 23:10:31 GMT

I actually have a C program which allowed VMS users to do things like
redirection to/from files and do piping (it handled the mailbox setups
for you).  However, this brings up another problem with this scenario:
the standard VMS programs don't seem to be written with pipelining in mind.
They're not careful to use the stdin and stdout type models.  As a
result, the program I used for pipelines only had limited
functionality.
             Peace,
                 dNb