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- From: yuk@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Yuk Lun Chan)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:47:41 GMT
- Subject: Re: Name pipes over TCP/IP
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- >comp.os.os2.networking / kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l) / 2:15 am Jan 26, 1993 /
- >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 pipe is introduced into DOS and OS/2 in Lan manager 1.0. It is simply
- a first in first out queue with name. Your server program creates a
- named pipe (of course, you need to name it) and waiting for thing from
- other end. And then your client program can open it (instead of
- open("filename"), it is open("\\pipe\pipename")). Then your server and
- client program can talk to each other!!! with simple read() and write().
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- Details can be obtained from OS/2 programmer's reference.
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- Yuk
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