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From: msdos@cs.mcgill.ca (Mark SOKOLOWSKI)
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Subject: pipes...
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Date: 27 Dec 90 00:27:06 GMT
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USER =(1) MASTER =(2) SLAVE where SLAVE is any program using
(stdin,stdout), (1) is the (stdin,stdout) pair and (2) is a set of
2 pipes. SLAVE sees (2) as (stdin,stdout), while MASTER sees it
as (Pipe[1],Pipe[0]).

Mark