On Fri, 12 Jul 2019, Clem Cole wrote:
[ VMS "pipes" ]
If I recall this was one of the implementations that
wrote to a file and
then forked the next process after it got to eof.
That's my recollection too.
Trivia: I was speaking to Max at a DECUS conference, and he admitted that
they had a Unix licence and were studying the code very carefully; not
soon after, VMS became POSIX-compliant :-)
-- Dave