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[Stan Brown]

Is there a more suitable newsgroup for some questions about the
command prompt? Specifically there's something I don't understand
happening with piping.

 

[Guest]

You can state your situation here and someone may be able to help or redirect
you to another NG or Forum. The below URL (websites) may be of some help.

Problem with FSD: "type"ing files at the command prompt
http://www.osronline.com/lists_archive/ntfsd/thread4578.html

Testing Drive Status (piping) (Rev Mar 97)
http://www.pressroom.com/~tglbatch/testdrv.html

 

[Stan Brown]

in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:

You can state your situation here and someone may be able to help or redirect
you to another NG or Forum. The below URL (websites) may be of some help.

Thanks. (The URLs weren't really relevant to my problem.)

The symptom I'm having is that when I pipe the output of one
program to a second program, the second program sometimes doesn't
see the output of the first program. (The second program is a find-
type utility that I wrote.) I suspect this has something to do with
pipes and threads and processes, but I don't yet know enough to ask
intelligent questions.

The same procedure worked just fine in DOS 7 and in Windows 98, but
I know that cmd.exe isn't DOS.

I've read what Help and Support Center has to say about the command
prompt and specifically about piping and redirection, but it didn't
shed any light.

Unless the above sparks some ideas, let me try to isolate the
problem to a simpler case.