Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!daver!bungi.com!news From: sverre@lev.Seri.GOV (Sverre Froyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: pipes take 2 Message-ID: <9103041951.AA07475@lev.seri.gov> Date: 4 Mar 91 19:51:45 GMT Sender: news@daver.bungi.com Lines: 13 Approved: news@daver.bungi.com As suggested by Jyrki, I increased the PIPE_SIZE by a factor of eight. This did not, however, resolve my problems. Could someone run the script below and verify my observations. --Sverre # Works (grep LDBL_MAX_10_EXP /usr/include/float.h; echo "-LDBL_MAX_10_EXP" ) > ppp cat ppp | /usr/lib/gcc-cpp # Does not work (grep LDBL_MAX_10_EXP /usr/include/float.h; echo "-LDBL_MAX_10_EXP" ) \ | /usr/lib/gcc-cpp