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- From: ibh@dde.dk (Ib H°jme)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Normal MSDOS multitasking!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.074243.10361@dde.dk>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 07:42:43 GMT
- References: <1ghb1vINNccb@ub.d.umn.edu>
- Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S
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- cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris) writes:
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- > 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?
-
- >--
-
- No way. What happens is this :
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- The command before the "|" is started with output redirected to a file.
- When this command terminates, the command after the "|" is started with
- input redirected from the file !
-
- So no multi-tasking at all.
-
- Regards Ib
-
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