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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: I wanna have a DOSGate!
Message-ID: <8257@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 2 Jun 89 05:12:57 GMT
References: <3889@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <3889@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) says:
> In article <1989May28.171344.4525@ziebmef.uucp>, mcp@ziebmef.uucp (Marc Plumb) writes:
>> In article <16031@gryphon.COM> ddave@pnet02.cts.com (David Donley) writes:
>> >How can I fake normal standard programs into sending their stdio into
>> >my BBS code?
>> Write a DOS handler.
> What's wrong with using a PIPE: type of device?

Nothing, for many programs. A lot, for some. Console packets,
y'know... PIPE: implements disk drive packets, not console packets. 

Matt Dillon's Dpipe or maybe Bill Hawes's PIP: might do the trick.
Matt certainly does open remote CLI's using dpipe...

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