Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!A.CC.UMICH.EDU!rees From: rees@A.CC.UMICH.EDU (Jim Rees) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Input/Output redirection and parallelism Message-ID: <8807221747.AA01112@a.cc.umich.edu> Date: 22 Jul 88 17:50:16 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: rees@caen.engin.umich.edu (Jim Rees) Organization: The Internet Lines: 13 If you ran a program like this: $ front-end | package The output of front-end doesn't get sent to the input of the package until the front-end program is done. is there a way on the command line to create one process for each part of the pipe? You're probably using the wrong shell for this. /com/sh uses temporary files to simulate pipelines. The other (unix) shells all make real pipelines, and should do what you want. -------