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Re: CMS Pipelines

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We took "Far better than Unix Pipes with multistream+multilevel dispatch" out of the title. That's editorializing, which is not allowed in HN titles. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, you're welcome to do so by posting a comment about that to the thread. Then your opinion is on the same level as everyone else's.

Got it. Thank You. I didnt know about this policy but basically trying to answer the question as to why one should read it/look at it. I was trying to stave off the question that this is for 'mainframe' computing and that it is dated etc

Sadly, CMS is so obscure most people don't even associate it with mainframes anymore.

Re: CMS Pipelines

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1. Unix pipes are 1 dimensional grep ”^#” dat1 | foobar > dat2 whereas the key thing about this idea is that real pipes can be multidimensional grep ”^#” dat1 | foobar | | | | snafu | stitch > dat2 2. This system treats ">" as a program in itself and verifies a "program descriptor" before it trashes the next one in the pipe 3. Unix pipes give you the error code of the first stopped component in the pipeline whereas i…

Not quite sure what you mean. Are you referring to the ability to use something like "tee" in Unix? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tee_%28command%29
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