Re: A Few Monospaced Font Links
From Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 18 Dec 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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.----- On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:13:53 +0100, Veronica Karlsson posted:
|Lester5374 wrote:
|> > ... One thing about this font,
|> > however, is that the vertical bar character "|" is split in two
|>
|> ...that character is
|> called the PIPE. It is used in the DOS command line a lot.
|>
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|It's called "vertical bar". It is used to "pipe" commands in unix (don't
|know about DOS). If you want to describe the command "ls -al | more" to
|another person you say "ls minus al pipe more" instead of "ls minus al
|vertical bar more" (because that makes more sense in that situation
|since you mean that you want to "pipe" "ls" and "more"). The result is
|that at some point somebody got the idea that "pipe" was the name of the
|_character_.
|
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Tis the same in MS-DOS. If you enter
type blooblah.txt | more
the output from the type command is fed into more which spits it out a page
at a time.
I always called it pipe cos it's shorter than Vertical Bar. :o)
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-Martin
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