From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Non Existant dos pipes ... where did they go ?
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:09:06 +0200
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Alex Crowther wrote:

> "echo Wibble | more"
> 
> should output ...
> 
> "Wibble"
> 
> but instead I get
> 
> "Wibble | more"

It's possible that you are using some national codepage where the `|'
key generates a non-ASCII code.  To check this, edit a file with the
character and then look at the file's contents with some hex dump
utility.  If you have the ported Textutils installed, you can use the
`od' program from that package.

> One last thing, is there a windows libary for gcc so I can write
> graphical windows
> apps ???

Try the suggestions of section 3.6 in the DJGPP FAQ list.