Michael C. Toren on Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:14:09 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Linux FIFOs


> I was under the impression pine had simply been told to do a |cat
> <sig FIFO> and dump it in the editor.

If pine could be configured to execute an arbitrary program and use it's
output as the value of the signature, there'd be no need for a FIFO :-)
My guess is that pine is configured to read the signature from the
~/.signature file, which has been replaced with a FIFO.

-mct
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