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From: "rob pike" <rob@pla...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pipefile
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:49:01 -0400

> >Could one stack pipefiles?
> No...

Why not?

% pipefile -w 'tr a-z A-Z' /dev/cons
% pipefile -w 'tr A-J 0-9' /dev/cons
% rc < /dev/cons > /dev/cons >[2] /dev/cons
% date
THU 0UG  3 00:48:13 43T 2000
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