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- From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
- Subject: Re: Name pipes over TCP/IP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.051909.13457@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Organization: Acadia University
- References: <C1FJ0A.JG6@well.sf.ca.us> <C1FvLn.EL0@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:19:09 GMT
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- kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l) writes:
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- >shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes:
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- >>Running FTP's PC/TCP for OS/2, is there a way to create a networked
- >>named pipe? If I run the netbios emulation, does that help me at all?
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- >Shoot me for a newbie idiot, but what the hell is a named pipe, anyway?
- >I read the Novell manual, and it describes how to set them up, but never
- >tells you what bloody good they do. Why use them? What are they? What
- >do they taste like? Are they better with ketchup? I don't get it.
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- Named pipes are essentially FIFO queues for interprocess communications.
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- James Robie Skinner | Jodrey School of Computer Science James.Skinner@dragon.acadiau.ca | Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada
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