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From: gregpf@momenta.com (Greg Presedo-Floyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Pipe failure on network drives.
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.153107.4394@momenta.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 15:31:07 GMT
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ericm@ims.UUCP (Eric Martinson) writes:
>	intermediate file error during pipe
>	dir | sort

"|" creates a temp file to store intermediate processing.

DOS 5.0 BETA is the first COMMAND.COM to allow you to point "|" processing
to somewhere you *always* have rights (like c:/tmp) via an environmental var.

MKS Unix Toolkit has always allowed you to do this by setting the $TMPDIR
variable.

>error message is not present.  The folks at AST's support center don't
>have anything useful to contribute to the problem.  

Wow, if this is true, I'm amazed ... AST ?
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