From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] newbie rc question
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:34:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b3782aa3c2451d6c10eb63778ced9bf@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b58c099118368526226feab519d01c55@csplan9.rit.edu>
> This doesn't quite allow for the same possibilities as the original
> Unix program seemed to, where you could do:
> watch fig1.pic | pic | troff | page
> instead of being limited to just one command. Can the problem of
> open file descriptors be solved in rc while still giving a nice general
> tool, or is it necessary to go to C?
>
>
> John
sure it does. you could replace the $2 < $1 in the script with
rc -c $2<$1
then your command would be
watch fig1.pic 'pic|troff|page'
- erik
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-15 16:46 john
2007-10-15 17:22 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-15 20:30 ` john
2007-10-15 20:34 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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