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From: kenw@noah.arc.CDN (Ken Wallewein)
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Subject: Re: redirection of stdio, et al.
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Date: Sat, 2-May-87 04:21:11 EDT
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  A while back, I wrote a set of DCL command files to perform piping a la
unix. It allows me to say things like
	pipe dir | dups > purgable.lst.
I write a number of filters and filter templates in TECO, C, BASIC, and DCL.
  The redirection was just a tad tricky, and I learned a bit about 
logical device handling. I used temporary files and sequential processing
rather than pipes between spawned processes, but that is irrelevant to the
redirection aspect. Also easier under restrictive environments. Anyway, I 
could provide it (post it, whatever) if anybody's interested.
/kenw