Windows DOS box redirection

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Dennis Lee Bieber (Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:34:32 -0700)
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:50:53 +0100, Thorsten Kampe
> <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> > That article mentions a pipe - and has nothing to do with input or
> > output redirection...
> >
> 	And what is a pipe, at least on Windows command lines, if not a
> linked pair of I/O redirection? First program output redirected to <>,
> second program input redirected from <> (where <> represents some
> shared data stream which could possibly be implemented by creating a
> scratch file in, say %TEMP%\apipe.dat)

In the case of redirection you get the input from or output to a file. 
In the case of a pipe you don't have files involved.

Thorsten