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- Subject: named pipe
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- From: marcello@deis20.cineca.it (Marcello Dalpasso)
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:53:26 +0100
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- Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science & Systems, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
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- Is there any wizard on the net being so kind to summarize to me the usage of
- named pipes?!
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- In particular, I would make something like this:
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- cp file named-pipe
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- and get "file" passed to lpr, i.e. named-pipe == | lpr
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- Thanks in advance for any help, preferably via e-mail
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- Marcello Dalpasso (e-mail: marcello@deis20.cineca.it)
- D.E.I.S. - Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems
- Viale Risorgimento 2, I-40136 Bologna, Italy
- Phone: +39-51-644-3015 (fax: +39-51-644-3073)
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