Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!tiger!ggdavis
From: ggdavis@tiger.waterloo.edu (Greg Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Filters (was ABE Source & introduction)
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Date: 4 Mar 90 09:24:14 GMT
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In article <1990Mar3.042312.12638@wolves.uucp> ggw@wolves.UUCP (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
>In article <103509@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>>	type foo | tiny-dabe >abe.arc
>>	tiny-dabe <foo >abe.arc
>
>	Uhm, Brad.  These two forms are equivalent.

No they're not.  DOS uses temporary files for pipes.  All the output of
"type foo" will go to a file and this file will be input for "dabe".
Using a pipe is needlessly doing an extra operation and creating an
extra file.  Using redirection is definitely more efficient than using
a pipe.