Subject: Re: pine "user@domain" < FILE - doesn't work ?

From: [email-masked] (Lucio Chiappetti)
Date: 7 Apr 1995 07:50:38 -0500

[email-masked] (Supak Lailert) writes:
|>  >Input/output redirect won't work--clearly stated in PINE documentation...
|>  >It should, though.

somebody else [reference lost] said
|>  >: 	The ability of a program to accept its data from STDIN being redirected
|>  >: 	to open file (by shell) is one of _very basic concepts of Unices ...

  There are interactive programs which do not follow that approach.
  See e.g. "telnet" or "tip".
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