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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yet Another Entry In The 1.4 Wish List...
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Date: 20 Mar 89 17:32:36 GMT
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In article <DEVEN.89Mar20120656@daniel.pawl.rpi.edu> shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Thomas Corzine) writes:
>In article <4297@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> rickfor@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Rick Forrest) writes:
>>Please, Pleeeeeeeeeeze, give me a real pipe. Please.
>This would be a huge improvement...
>>Meaning: list | sort | wc, et cetera.

Come on, we've got real pipes.  What you want is just syntactic sugar.
Something the shell should do.  In fact, WShell (by Bill Hawes) does this.
Anyway, don't say "give me a real pipe", 'cause they did already.  Say
"please, make pipes easier to use".  Or just get WShell.

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell U.