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- Message-ID: <CMSPIP-L%92072813161659@VM.MARIST.EDU>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.cmspip-l
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:01:06 CST
- Sender: VM/SP CMS Pipelines Discussion List <CMSPIP-L@MARIST.BITNET>
- From: Jim Colten <IJIM@UMINN1.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Retrieving NETDATA format files from the Reader
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:27:43 PDT from <DWIGHT@UCSBVM>
- Lines: 26
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- On Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:27:43 PDT Dwight M. McCann said:
- >I am running VM/XA SP 2.1. I am trying to read netdata formatted input
- >from my reader using the following exec:
- >
- >"pipe reader | find '41'x | spec 2-* 1.80 | deblock netdata | console"
- >
- >There is no output. When I ran it using PIPEDEMO I discovered that no
- >records get through the FIND stage. .....
-
- This ends up being a REXX question. It is often *VERY* easy to blur the
- boundary between pipelines and REXX. The '41'x in your pipe is quoted by ""
- and taken literally by REXX, so pipelines sees:
-
- find '41'x
-
- Pipelines takes this to mean you want to look for the five chars '41'x rather
- than one char containing hex 41.
-
- I believe that if you do:
-
-
- "pipe reader | find" '41'x "| spec 2-* 1.80 | deblock netdata | console"
-
- then you will see records emerging from the find stage.
-
- Jim Colten
-