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- From: ben@rex.chb.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
- Subject: Re: making the named pipe work on a cluster
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.231625.18562@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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- Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:16:25 GMT
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- neilb@scs.leeds.ac.uk (Neil Bowers) writes:
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- >pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman) writes:
- >>Ok, drop the other shoe, then.
- >>
- >>I don't want code, just an idea of what a better solution for a random
- >>sig generator would be.
-
- >Couple of quick ideas, depends on how often you want to change your sig
-
- >daily: setup a script which soft-links .signature to one of your collection
- > of signatures.
- Not often enough
-
- >each rn session:
- > have a script "my<newsreader>", which makes a soft-link before exec'ing
- > <newsreader>
- Not often enough
-
- >every post:
- > take a copy of (Pnews|inews) and modify it, to pick a different sig
- > each time
-
- So, every user should have there own version of inews? That may
- satisfy one person. You could, of course, modify inews to run a .file,
- but still, named pipes allow for a certain variety that would not otherwise
- be possible. Named pipes in UNIX might not be the world's best
- implementation, but, what feature in UNIX is implemented nicely? Lets
- face it, the semantics of half of UNIX leave something to be desired...
- however, that is a lot better then most other OS's.
-
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