Hello Alexey!

12 Oct 14 11:14, you wrote to Mark Hofmann:

 AV> If mailers in that time could work with unnamed pipes, there would be no
 AV> real need to invent these stupid "compatibility layers"...

 The wisdom of hindsight. At the time the compatibility layes were developed,
 the problem was in the hardware, where the implementation of the serial
 ports in IBM-PC's and Digital-PC's was different.

 At the time quite a few people working for Digital were active in Fidonet.
 They have also been active in early connections between the USA and Europe,
 using the companies internal network. As far as I know this all happened
 before the split of fidonet into different zones.

 The only concept of pipes in MSdos was the use of "|". It was implemented
 by use of intermediate files.

Kees

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