[Info-vax] grep a nice one

[David Mathog]

Wilm Boerhout wrote:
> use "pipe" only when the command is something other than type, such as
>
> $ pipe @sda | grep lookforthis

Perhaps this has changed on recent versions of VMS, but last time I had 
a VMS system making a long pipe like

   prog1 | prog2 | prog3 | prog4

resulted in absolutely terrible throughput.  It was usually much faster 
to save explicit intermediary files, or have the DCL script use logicals 
or symbols to hold partial results.

Regards,

David Mathog