named pipes and .plan

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <2884 at idunno.Princeton.EDU> pfalstad at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad) writes:
> Somebody just posted an 100+ line program that does much the same thing as
> this (unless I'm missing something really obvious):
  [ shell script deleted ]
> Now what am I missing??? Why does this have to be so complicated????

Error checking, a couple of extra features, and no wasted execs. If you
don't want to check errors, write code for Berkeley. :-)

---Dan