Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:59:56 +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 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?