John Summerfied wrote: > Much earlier in this thread (which seems to have changed its subject > from time to time), folk were talking about using this in scripts, and > examples using /bin/sh were given. > > For this purpose, serialisation and paralellisation by the driver are > inadequate. The state must be preserved for use by the script. Then use a scripting language that can do multiple commands on an open file descriptor [=session]. Like Perl or so. --
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