In article <25F00B67.17161 at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes: > > And, of course, this will take up disk space while your program is >running. If you write write the temp file to a ram disk, won't this give you nearly the same effect as the UNIX pipe? John Dowding dowding at linc.cis.upenn.edu