On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Alexander Biehl wrote:
> is there any variable containing the return value of a pipe?
If you think the pipe is run during filtering, you are misunderstanding.
Filtering *set up* deliveries; they are not done till later, along with
all the other deliveries. So setting a variable would not do you any
good, because there is nowhere that you could use it.
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