Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!ogicse!unmvax!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Pipe syntax... I think I'd better think it out again... Message-ID: Date: 27 Nov 90 14:29:20 GMT References: <1990Nov18.090654.24747@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Nov19.031449.25071@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Nov24.073600.10802@agate.berkeley.edu> Lines: 48 >In article <1990Nov24.073600.10802@agate.berkeley.edu> pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) writes: > >In <1990Nov19.031449.25071@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> (19 Nov), >Loren Rittle (lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) writes: >> >> [.....] >> By the way, many commands that won't handle piping won't handle >> any better under your new idea. The MORE command as distributed >> by Commodore is a prime example: >> >> MORE > and >> MORE PIPE:AA >> >> using any pipe device you care to use causes the MORE command to >> get quite upset, at least under the 1.3 version of MORE. [.....] >> LESS, another non-standard standard command is the only pager >> that I have found that supports pipeing the way it should. > >How very odd. On my system, MORE works reasonably happily with a pipe >(and I know Carolyn intended it to...) -- except that it double-spaces >for some reason. (It does that also if you give it input from a console >window.) LESS (the version I have. anyhow), on the other hand, objects >that it "Can't accept input from a terminal". (Whereas you CAN pipe to >less on unix -- it just won't backtrack past its current buffer.) The version of less that I am using for the Amiga accepts input fine from a pipe... just like the UNIX version. >Could it be, I wonder, that your "Bug-Free" ARP system is not quite so..? >(:-)) (:-)) Actually, I've run into little snags of this kind every time >I've tried ARP -- or tried to use scripts that run fine on my system >on somebody else's with ARP installed -- so that is why it is NOT on mine... >[but that's another thread, isn't it.] I don't think so. I use ARP commands exclusively, and the MORE command accepts input from a pipe just fine, albeit with the same weird double-spacing that you get without ARP. I don't think this is one of the things that ARP has broken. Please, people, don't blame every little problem you may be having on ARP - some of us use it rather reliably. It's like the PC users who blame everything on viruses... > -- Pete -- -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |