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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Determining disk devices
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Date: 5 Jan 90 13:28:42 GMT
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In article <331@sed170.HAC.COM> lee@sed170.UUCP (John Lee) writes:

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> Notice that PIPE: now shows up in the Load
>file-requester.
>
>My question is simple.  How do you make sure you locate only disk devices,
>and not merely all devices that are resident and have a name?

Hmm, but isn't that the whole *point* of the PIPE: device?  To allow programs
to use it without modificiation?  I might, in another CLI, say something like:

	1> zcat >PIPE:foo compressed-iff-file.Z

and then load PIPE:foo from DPaint.  When saving the file, I could save to
PIPE:bar, and then in the other CLI say

	1> compress >new-compressed-iff-file.Z -c PIPE:bar

I'm sure that you can some up with similar situtations that apply to network-
like devices for other purposes.

It's not a bug, its a feature.  Really.

louie