On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 Richard.Prosser@Powerware.com wrote:

> DOS , or probably more correctly QDOS (Quick & Dirty operating system) was
> designed to be CP/M "like" in its command line instructions.
> For some reason PIP was not carried through into DOS - possibly because it
> was a program call rather than a command instruction?

Maybe it did not carry over but it did appear sort of laterally as the 
pipe character I think. Was the pipe character used before CP/M and Unix 
?

Peter
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