Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!sun!imagen!atari!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Devices in general Message-ID: <12152@cup.portal.com> Date: 5 Dec 88 05:25:40 GMT References: <5015@garfield.MUN.EDU> <1086@teorix.liu.se> <3046@sugar.uu.net> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 25 Re: Peter da Silva's comments about piping and the Amiga and UNIX ... I agree. Consider how easy and simple it is to unpack the GNU EMACS: cat emacs-18.52.?? | zcat | tar xvf - The EMACS compressed "tar" distribution is 4.5Megabytes; the uncompressed file is 11.4 Megabytes; the number of source files is approx. 784. The above operation took about 2 minutes (wall clock time) on my 3B1 and I didn't have enough disk space to hold the separate stages; pipes and piping *ARE* extremely important! One general question, though: is the Amiga UNIX "stuck" with the brain-damaged SysV 14-character filename size limit? If so, FIX IT BEFORE RELEASE. 14-character filenames sucks dead bunnies through a straw. (NO smiley face) Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]