Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!emory!gatech!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!bskendig
From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 7.0 vs. NeXT Step
Message-ID: <5646@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 24 Jan 91 03:47:36 GMT
References: <11468@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Jan23.204448.23778@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu> <NK5W6CQ@cs.swarthmore.edu>
Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU
Organization: Starfleet Academy: Princeton University
Lines: 28

In article <NK5W6CQ@cs.swarthmore.edu> jeremy@cs.swarthmore.edu (Jeremy Brest) writes:
>In <1991Jan23.204448.23778@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu> minich@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:
>>by n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton):
>>| Pipes?
>>No. Pipes don't make a lot of sense without stdin and stdout, do
>>they? :-) 

>I guess I don't follow you.  This is a quote of the pipe(2) man page: 
> ...
>What does this have to do with stdin and stdout?

Maybe I'm missing something here, myself.  What does this have to do
with the Macintosh?

Are you proposing that we be able to pipe data from Versaterm to
MacPaint?

Piping is nice when you have small programs whose only function is to
manipulate the data piped into them, and pipe out changed data, such
as grep and colrm and sort.  There are no programs like these existing
for the Macintosh, as far as I know.

     << Brian >>

| Brian S. Kendig      \ Macintosh |   Engineering,   | bskendig             |
| Computer Engineering |\ Thought  |  USS Enterprise  | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU
| Princeton University |_\ Police  | -= NCC-1701-D =- | @PUCC.BITNET         |
"It's not that I don't have the work to *do* -- I don't do the work I *have*."