On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:50:43PM -0000, paul.downey@bt.com wrote: > ah, but the pipe is the transport. A Unix pipe can be used for transport or transfer. In this case it's used for transfer, as there's no operation in what is exchanged (i.e. it's state), nor more importantly, any expectation that anything occur beyond simply processing the data. > try: ls | zcat | sort Sure, schemas and content encodings have to match up. Unix pipes aren't particularly self-descriptive. Had they been, the shell would be able to detect the mismatch and possibly re-route the data flow to correct it. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.caReceived on Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:02:10 UTC
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