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    Life, Universe and Everything

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    A '$'-sign in front of a line instructs Xi to treat the line as a shell command.

    (  1)>$ls -l 
    -rwxrwxr-x   1 spander  scratch   3359947 May 30 13:25 xi*
    -rwxrwxr-x   1 spander  scratch    886913 May 30 13:25 xi3dEPSgraph*
    -rwxrwxr-x   1 spander  scratch    881981 May 30 13:25 xi3dPOVgraph*
    -rwxrwxr-x   1 spander  scratch   1025850 May 30 13:25 xi3dgraph*
    (  2)>$date
    Thu May 30 23:40:10 MET DST 1996
    

    By default Xi uses standard Unix pipes to communicate between serveral tasks. At this moment the Linux version of Xi supports also communication via shared memory pipes. While opening a window enable shared memory pipes with the parameter \shm.

    <(  1)>window(0,\shm);
    

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