On Monday 27 July 2009 12:00, Per Jessen wrote:
Never even heard about it. But VM/CMS pipes are at least 10 years old and were even then more powerful than what we have in todays bash et al.
VM/ESA CMS Pipelines (Release 2) dates back to 1992. Early CMS Pipelines dates back to the mid 1980's. I have been playing around with a *nix port of "Pipelines" in my spare time because the pipelines concept is so powerful for processing table-based text files (flat text database files), and is less cryptic for newbies than learning regular expressions. Back in the day we (VMers) would build REXX shells around CMS Pipelines for processing text. They were powerful and yet were not as cryptic as unix pipes containing regular expressions. On the other hand, if you take the time to learn a little Pearl and regular expressions you can do all the same stuff as CMS Pipelines (with the exception that secondary and tertiary pipelines in CMS is easier to code and more efficient. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org