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From: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore confirms 1.3 rumor
Keywords: straight from a CBM Rep.
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Date: 29 Jan 88 15:26:24 GMT
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In article <1065@percival.UUCP> baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) writes:

>Will 1.3 support Pipes?"  They Rep answered "YES,
>1.3 will support pipes."  This is one of the first real solid confirmed
>features I've heard about 1.3.  He also mention that 1.3 will support
>an AUX: device, I thought we already had that.

There are at least 2 different implmentations of pipe available now.  Since
1.2 supports pipe, I would hope that 1.3 does too.  It would be nice if they
provided a shell which did use pipe more transparently than the way that
we have to use them now, but they work just fine in any case.

Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming