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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Windows XP pipe problems
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:01:09 CST
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> I see the same with ls|more - it works under cmd, but under bash more
> does not see any input.

I can't reproduce this.  I'm using the v2.03 refresh'ed file utils and
bash on Windows XP pro.  I launch bash.  Do the command:

ls | /windows/system32/more.com

and I see output OK. Make sure lfn tsr isn't loading - I don't know if
that would cause problems or not.

> > > It is not possible to pipe the standard output to/from the native
> > > win32 console programs under bash (version 2.04.7(1)-release).  For
> > > example,  ls|less ;  hello.exe|wc ;   hello.exe|less would not work,
> > > if ls, wc are DJGPP programs and less, hello.exe are native win32
> > > applications.  

> > Do you see the same problem with ls | more ? (ls is the djgpp image,
> > more is a built in win2k more.com image - but is actually a PE executable).
> > If this works it makes me suspicious of how the "less" image you have 
> > is handling the pipe.