Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:48:15 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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Subject: Re: Ispell and pipes
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On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

> I remmember I had some success using the Bill's driver that makes the 
> transfer buffer shared. But that's slow and needs the driver loaded. 

This mechanism will be used in interactive programs and in applications
like an editor which lets the compiler run in the background.  For
example, Emacs' support for async subprocesses is implemented so that the
output from a subprocess is only read if Emacs is idle.  This means that
if you are a very fast typist, or if you invoke a command that takes a
long time to finish, you can almost block the compiler messages from being
displayed in the compilation buffer.  And yet when I use these Emacs
facilities on Unix, I hardly see any slow-down. 

So I don't think speed is so much important in this case.

> (I think CygWin support real pipes ;-).

I don't intend to switch to Cygwin any time soon ;-).