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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: What is ISIS ?
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Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <1991Mar4.174553.20179@cs.UAlberta.CA> <10204@uwm.edu> <12593@goofy.Apple.COM>
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 23:00:18 GMT

ISIS had a nice feature, the remainder of the command line, after the program
name, was passed on standard input of the command. I've often thought this
would be a nice way of doing things: you could even have a "stdcmd" file
descriptor for this purpose. Then instead of piping stuff to xargs,
you could pipe the output of find right into the stdcmd of the program.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
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