Re: Name pipes over TCP/IP

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From: James R. Skinner
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:19

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kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l) writes:

>shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes:

>>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?

>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.

Named pipes are essentially FIFO queues for interprocess communications.

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