lipman@decwrl.UUCP (02/23/84)
Message-Id: <8402230953.AA26345@decwrl.ARPA> Date: Thursday, 23 Feb 1984 01:50:48-PST From: vogon::goodenough (Jeff Goodenough, IPG) To: net.micro.cbm Subject: ROM wars I'll check my Basic ROM listing in a day or so (we're out to dinner tonight) and see if I can spot any advantage in either method. Maybe we should adopt a good old British compromise and go in at one and a half. While I'm typing : I know this is not the place, but what's a Unix pipe? From discussions (like using up-arow as equivalent) it sounds like a character. (I'm a mere VAX/VMS user). Jeff.
glen@intelca.UUCP (Glen Shires) (02/28/84)
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unix uses a special character "pipe" to perform a piping function.
- The character is the vertical line "|"
- The character directs (pipes) the output of one program into the
input of another, e.g. ls|more lists the files and sends them to
a program that stops after every CRTful and asks "more?".
^ ^ Glen Shires, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
O O {pur-ee,hplabs,ucbvax!amd70}!intelca!glen
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