DBrown@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (07/06/84)
), and then watch the unix-like shells start to appear... --dave (unix hack on a bun) brown
DBrown@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (07/13/84)
Re pipes & linking: dynamic linking ad pipes have little relation to each other. the Multics equivalent of a pipe ia an active function, which returns its result as a string for the command interpreter to use (much like the x = `some_program` construct in the Unix shell). pipes avoid having data written to a (possibly huge) tempfile before further processing can continue, and are therefore reall more of an interprocess communication than a linking mechanism. Dynamic linking, in retrospect, is mostly usefull in maintenance of existing progras, not development. (about which, much later) --dave (unix hack on a 'bun) brown