Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Devices in general Message-ID: <8812062335.AA07030@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 6 Dec 88 23:35:43 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 26 :In article <3046@sugar.uu.net>, peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: :>In article <1086@teorix.liu.se>, dat01@teorix.liu.se (Dat) writes: :>> What I would like to do is use the devices as some kind of pipes. :> :>Better would be some real pipes and better tools. Some things make sense :>as devices, and some things make more sense as tools. Relatively large :>programs like arc and zoo fit into the latter category. :> :>I want a good korn shell for the Amiga. csh is a crummy programming language. :> :>> saveas CRYPT:ZOO:MSDOS:file :> :>crypt file | zoo create MSDOS:file.zoo input "file" : :Yes, but you can't do this from your favourite editor(or whatever) ... I It is possible to do this, but you would need to write a core device that would figure out the path and setup multiple pipes to handle it, like this: saveas CORE:CRYPT/key=charlie/ZOO:MSDOS:file Where CORE: would parse the rest of the path, set up a pipe to CRYPT/key=charlie, from there to ZOO:, from there to MSDOS:file . -Matt