.PROCESS - I/O redirection control.

Description:

Normally .BSET strips command line arguments which begin with '<', '>' and '>>', and uses them to set up I/O redirection. However, if you set ".process" to zero, .BSET treats these like any other arguments. Setting ".process" to zero is usually done with an external declaration of the form

.process {0};

If you set .PROCESS to any other value, .BSET allocates buffers of that size to hold redirection arguments. For example,

.process {10};

allocates buffers of 10 llinks to hold each redirection argument. The default buffer size is 8 llinks.

See Also:

expl b lib .bset

for a full discussion of command line parsing.

expl b lib open

for a description of I/O buffer sizes.

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