Normal MSDOS multitasking!

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From: Chris
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:53

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   Apparantly MSDOS multitasks with the use of the pipe "|".  Is this
true?  How does the | really work?  For example: "type this.txt | more"
has 'type' and 'more' being ran simultaneously (apparantly).  How is
this so?

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Chris Busch   CBUSCH@ub.d.umn.edu
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 put burden on the programmer!"
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From: cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris)
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Subject: Normal MSDOS multitasking!
Date: 14 Dec 1992 00:53:51 -0600
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