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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS? (or: Tools Tools Tools)
Message-ID: <27934B27.35C7@tct.uucp>
Date: 15 Jan 91 18:34:14 GMT
References: <EGDORF.91Jan12184630@zaphod.lanl.gov> <11255@lanl.gov>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles):
>Piping things together is about the _least_ efficient way of
>incorporating a functionality into a tool.

Don't confuse the UNIX pipe service with its implementation.

Poor pipe implememtations abound.  So do poor implementations of every
OS feature ever devised.  That fact proves nothing.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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