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From: dowding@linc.cis.upenn.edu (John Dowding)
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Subject: Re: popen()
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Date: 4 Mar 90 15:58:25 GMT
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In article <25F00B67.17161@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
>
>   And, of course, this will take up disk space while your program is
>running.

If you write write the temp file to a ram disk, won't this give you
nearly the same effect as the UNIX pipe?

John Dowding
dowding@linc.cis.upenn.edu