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- From: crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: PipeFS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.234849.8709@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 23:48:49 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.205326.365@logica.co.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: blacka@logica.co.uk's message of 19 Nov 92 20:53:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.205326.365@logica.co.uk>, blacka@logica.co.uk writes:
- > Can someone explain pipefs to me. I gather you can write to
- > pipefs::afile and someone else can read it.
- >
- > My machine (RISCOS 3.1) just gives you unknown filling
- > system.
-
- The solution to this is simple - the filing system is PipeFS, but the prefix
- is Pipe:. Try booting two task windows, and doing *BUILD Pipe:TestFile in the
- first, and *TYPE Pipe:TestFile in the second. Then type into the first window.
-
- --Clive.
-