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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Pipes
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Date: 9 Nov 90 19:43:49 GMT
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In <1990Nov8.040930.14630@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>, yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall) writes:
>That's the problem...it isn't always clear, unless you require whitespace
>around the | when it is used as a pipe symbol.  And even then, what happens
>when a filename has a space in it?  Hmmmmm, I guess you have to use quotes in
>that case (something like: del "(test |test)me" to delete both `testme' and
>`test me'), so that's okay.  still, it seems less confusing to use a new
>symbol.

I regularly use '|' as both a pipe and an 'OR' character on the Amiga, with no
confusion at all. I use WShell, Conman, and Bill Hawes' PIP: device. Try it,
you'll like it.

-larry

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