Brian <lxy at cloudnet.com> wrote: > > Update: I've figured out my broken pipe problem. In an earlier test I > used a > instead of | and I dumped /etc/hosts into /usr/sbin/nc. Not > going to work that way! Heh.. Unless you really need to pipe data from one process to another, you may as well avoid it and have the file be directly connected to stdin by doing something like `nc [options] < /path/to/file'. Though I suppose that might just make things more confusing... -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ The problem with the gene / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ pool is that there is no \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) lifeguard. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010627/a7c46d1a/attachment.pgp