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cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris) writes:

>    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?

You should be so lucky!  In your example, the processes are executed
sequentially.  The output of 'type' is directed to a temporary disk
file, and 'more' is started with its stdin directed to this file.  You
can see evidence of this easily... create an empty directory, log to it
and type 'dir | more'.  The two funny-named files you'll see are the
tempfiles DOS created to handle your pipe.  I have no idea why it
creates 2 files, though.  Probably a default in case you want to do a
2-pipe command.
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