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From: xvobm02@vse.cz (Martin Vobr)
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Subject: Talk: Pipes & Redirection on Amiga
Date: 24 Oct 1994 15:10:57 -0500
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In article <38egdc$jjd@sashimi.wwa.com> ogre@netcom.com (Joe Rumsey) writes:
>From: ogre@netcom.com (Joe Rumsey)
>Subject: Talk: Pipes & Redirection on Amiga
>Date: 23 Oct 1994 15:17:48 -0500


>Argos Cue (castaned@kennedy.ecn.purdue.edu) wrote:

>>Amigas also have pipes and redirection (and many other things)

>  Sure do, but the standard shell doesn't support '|' for making a
>pipe.  However, there's an excellent "port" of csh which does("port"

It isn't exactly true. Standard Amiga Shell DO support pipes (Workbech 2.0
and above) but this feature is normally disabled! You have to set enviromet
var _PCHAR to value "|" (or other char, you want to use as pipe delimiter).
For detailed instruction se Amiga FAQ ;-)

>because it's not strictly compatible with the Unix csh) as well as a
>port of ksh(which IS strictly compatible with the Unix ksh/sh.  I've
>used it for Unix sh scripts often)  Both of those support '|' and lots
>of other good things.

>--
>Oh? grrrr!
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