Re: About problems with named pipes

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Van Snyder wrote:
> I think it was actually  "zcat TheFile.gz> MyFifo  ; echo EOF> MyFifo "

Ok, the "|" was a typo.

But i think that the "EOF" will not be seen by the first consumer.
Better do

  ( zcat TheFile.gz ; echo EOF ) > MyFifo 


Whatever, i don't see a reason why a data consumer process should not
be able to read the data from at least the zcat run.

Please show in more detail what your data consumer does (or try to do).

Further it would be helpful if you try whether my input proposal
  ( zcat TheFile.gz ; echo EOF ) > MyFifo
yields better results.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas