On Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:01:08 -0500,
In article <kFgjyclh5biN092yn@io.org>,
cordahi@io.org (George Cordahi) wrote:
>In a previous thread, I mentioned some problems I had with piping. After
>some tests, I find it is getting weirder, and I am getting intrigued.
>
>I have to yarn installations:
>
>1. Yarnx (0.92) under DRDOS 6. It is called from a batch file that does
> several things before firing up Yarnx
>
> I successfully pipe messages to List and also to 'sort' and 'find'.
> With 'more', the screen blanks out temporarily, and then I get the yarn
> view again.
>
> 'More' does work from the Dos prompt.
I can't say specificly for DRDOS, but more will exit as soon as it
reaches the end of the file. In your case, more writes out less than
one screenfull of text, exits, then Yarn immediately erases the screen
and writes its own screen.
>
>2. Yarn95 (0.92) under Win95 (What else). It is called from a shortcut.
>
> All pipe attempts (including 'more') work properly THE FIRST TIME only.
> Whenever I try piping a SECOND TIME (from the same message, or another
> message) I get a red box error message 'Error writing file
> c:\home\yarn\message.snd'. If I exit yarn and start again, piping works
> the first time again.
You need someone that knows 95 on this one.
bob
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