det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) (05/15/89)
The version of less that i have for ms-dos does not implement piping, i.e., one cannot type the following command at the messy-dos prompt and get the expected output: cat file | less Does anyone have an implementation of less for dos that *does* do piping? Please send e-mail to det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG Thanks in advance, derek -- Derek Terveer det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG || ..!uunet!rosevax!elric!hawkmoon!det w(612)681-6986 h(612)688-0667 "A proper king is crowned" -- Thomas B. Costain
ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) (05/16/89)
In article <933@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes: >The version of less that i have for ms-dos does not implement piping, i.e., one >cannot type the following command at the messy-dos prompt and get the expected >output: > > cat file | less > Why, pray tell, run the output of cat into less? In effect you are doing copy file file.tmp less file.tmp In case you haven't noticed, the brain-dead pipes on MSDOS simply make intermediate scratch files. The right side of the pipe is not activated until the left has finished completely. Finally, what version of less for the PeeCee do you have? I just checked mine with ls -lR | less and it worked. (Although I used ls from MKS Toolkit, I ran under command.com rather than the korn shell just to check). Earl H. Kinmonth History Department University of California, Davis Davis, California 95616 916-752-1636 (2300-0800 PDT for FAX) 916-752-0776 (secretary) ucbvax!ucdavis!ucdked!cck (email) cc-dnet.ucdavis.edu [128.120.2.251] (request ucdked, login as guest)