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- Short: WORKING pipe frontend for AmigaShell
- Type: util/shell
- Author: Osma Ahvenlampi <Osma.Ahvenlampi@hut.fi>
- Uploader: Osma Ahvenlampi <Osma.Ahvenlampi@hut.fi>
-
- This is a PIPE: frontend for AmigaShell, taking advantage of an
- undocumented feature in it since OS version 2.04.
-
- Pipe processes a command line of the form "cmd1 | cmd2 [| cmd3 [...]]" and
- creates a pipeline with the output of one command as the input of the
- next. A simple usage example is "List SYS: | More".
-
- This is the second released version of Pipe. Changes since version 1.4:
- - input/output redirection works, ie.
- ilbmtoppm <foo.iff | pnmscale -xysize 320 200 | ppmtogif >foo.gif
- will work.
- - silly mistake with not recognising IN: or OUT: in the end of command
- line fixed.
-
- Feature list:
- - _pchar for normal piping
- - _mchar for output catenation
- - IN: and OUT: pseudofiles to fix those broken programs that can't read
- stdin.
- - works with AmigaDOS scripts
- - works with badly formed command lines
- - small, pure, residentable
- - tested on OS 3.1
-
- Install by copying to a directory in Shell search path and adding commands
- Set _pchar "|"
- Set _mchar "||"
- to S:Shell-Startup.
-
- Pipe is GIFTWARE.
-