RE: Question Re: Piping and Redirection

["Metz, Zak" <Zak_Metz@xxxxxx>]

No, I didn't miss the point. I have no interest in Unix, and no interest in 
creating some sort of Unix-like set of tools for the 400.

My point was that a tail-like command for monitoring message queues, extended 
to include dynamic complex filtering, would be a useful AS/400 application. I'm 
not trying to rewrite tail, I just thought I saw an opportunity to write 
something the community would find useful, and that happened to come out of 
this conversation.

From: jt [mailto:jt@ee.net]

| I think you're missing the point.   The point of this thread (IMHO) is
| that the Unix shell allows you a great deal of flexibility.   Not that any
| one particular Unix utility is needed.
|
| I think the tail thing was just one example.
|
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|
| But, simply taking one example and implementing it on OS/400 doesn't make
| it all work.  You need the whole paradigm to be used throughout...