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Re: Why use U* over VMS

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From: Stephen Harris
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 1990 15:48
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How in VMS do you have filters and pipelines?
eg, what would be the VMS (DCL?) equivalent of
	getso - | tbl | pic | eqn | rof | col | sqps | lpr -Ppost < file

Is there an equivalent, or would it need a lot of temporary files?

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From: sweh@tharr.UUCP (Stephen Harris)
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Subject: Re: Why use U* over VMS
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Date: 2 Nov 90 15:48:24 GMT
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