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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: making the named pipe work on a cluster
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.013131.3625@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 01:31:31 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College
- References: <1992Jul27.190402.13876@bradley.bradley.edu> <1992Jul27.211627.1584@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1992Jul27.231625.18562@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul27.231625.18562@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> ben@rex.chb.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes:
- >
- > 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.
-
- Each user only needs his own copy of the Pnews script, at least with
- rn-- that's no biggee.
-
- ObHack: A version of Pnews which posts through a mail-to-news gateway.
- (no flames if such a thing is PD somewhere...).
-
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