Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/07/27/13:35:16
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
>
> > From bash you can pipe more than 2 programs.
> > Suppose the editor opens ispell and the ispell needs to do the same
> > with other tool (I doubt that's the case but is totally possible).
>
> If you mean something like spawning a pipe "foo | bar | baz", then I
> don't think we need more than one of these (the last in the pipe) to be
> run multitasked, since the pipe, even if it has several stages, has only
> two ends. In other words, we usually don't care what does foo pass to
> bar and bar to baz, we only care about what baz writes to the screen.
>
> Did I miss something?
Don't know. But the way I'm using to implement my shell experiment allows it
and I don't see why you say it.
Suppose the editor reads the output of ispell and ispell process some
informationn through a third party ... what's strange here? and we must
switch between 3 tasks.
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