Asynchronous output

[Garry Wiegand]

I have an application which entails computing and churning out vast
quantities of data and, for speed, I'd like to have the I/O happening
in parallel with the computing. After reading the BSD and SysV manuals, 
I'm puzzled: does the system give us *any way* to do asynchronous output?

I've thought of writing a (presumably buffered) pipe to "cat" and thence to
my device. Is there anything else?

thanks -

[apologies if an incorrect posting on this (I just cancelled it) sneaks 
 through.]

garry wiegand   (garry%cadif-oak at cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)