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- From: cyberman@exucom.com (Stephen R. Phillips)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Normal MSDOS multitasking!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.013441.3028@exucom.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 01:34:41 GMT
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- Chris (cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu) wrote:
- :
- : Apparantly MSDOS multitasks with the use of the pipe "|". Is this
- : true? How does the | really work? For example: "type this.txt | more"
- : has 'type' and 'more' being ran simultaneously (apparantly). How is
- : this so?
- :
- 1: NO it's not a true pipe and it's NOT multitasking.
-
- 2: it creates a temporary file and spools it up tell the first
- program is finished then it redirects stdin for the next program to
- the temp file and runs that program. AND so one. Until it completes
- the task.
-
- It's an illusion.
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