Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!cherokee!eatdust!ron From: ron@eatdust (Ron Schweikert) Subject: Re: Regular pipe vs. Named Pipe Message-ID: <1991Jun10.174828.27518@cherokee.uswest.com> Sender: news@cherokee.uswest.com (Telegraph Row) Nntp-Posting-Host: eatdust.uswest.com Organization: U S WEST Communications -- Information Technologies References: <1991Jun7.195953.27744@digi.lonestar.org> <1991Jun10.143256.29982@digi.lonestar.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 17:48:28 GMT In article <1991Jun10.143256.29982@digi.lonestar.org> cfoughty@digi.lonestar.org (Cy Foughty) writes: >In article zfgo01@hgo7.hou.amoco.com (F. G. Oakes) writes: >>cfoughty@digi.lonestar.org (Cy Foughty) writes: (lots of stuff deleted about named pipes vs. regular ones, asking for info on IPC etc..) Reply was some information, plus recommendation to dig into the manuals. Response was... > >Unfortunately Unix manuals are a joke at best. Not everything works as >advertised. Hardly any books/manuals include live working examples. >I also don't need "adequate" documentation, I need answers quick. I've a >lot of work to perform. >-- >Cy Foughty >DSC Communications, Inc. 1000 Coit Rd., Plano,TX 75075 >Work:214.519.4237 La Casa:214.578.8837 >Don't compromise your compromises. Well, excuuuuuuuse us! We'll try to monitor the net so we can jump on your questions quickly in the future (Or did I take your response wrong?) The admonition to check the manuals (RTM or RTFM) plays along the same lines as "If a man is hungry, is it better to give him a fish, or teach him how to fish?" The net *is* a great place for fast answers, but your response that you don't need "adequate" documentation, but rather "fast answers" because you have "a lot of work to perform" is rather condescending. Don't you think we all have work to perform too?? I apologize publicly if I misinterpreted your response, but it didn't have a :-) by it...