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From: mark@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Are 3B1 "pipes" really slower than molasses?
Summary: pipes can be emulated with temp files on disk
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Date: 28 Nov 90 15:53:56 GMT
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If slow pipes are really the problem, you could always use the
same workaround that systems without pipes use: disk files.
	foo | bar
can be emulated with
	foo > /tmp/foo.$$
	bar < /tmp/foo.$$
	rm /tmp/foo.$$

Of course, this assumes adequate disk space for the temp file.

	Mark