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- From: buck@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Jesse Buckley)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: making the named pipe work on a cluster
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.133644.8873@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 13:36:44 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.211627.1584@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1992Jul27.231625.18562@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Jul28.013131.3625@eng.umd.edu>
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- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
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- Approved: buck...
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- In article <1992Jul28.013131.3625@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
- >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.
-
- ObHackAndAnswer:
- alias rn setenv EDITOR siged ; /usr/local/bin/rn -m !*; unsetenv EDITOR
-
- Where siged is an editor the adds on my sig. (Either before or
- after...)
-
- --
- =) Buck (buck@sunyit.edu)
- "If you are a fatalist, what can you do about it?"
- -- Ann Edwards-Duff
-