Subject: RE: mkfifo anyone ?
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

14 Jun 1997 07:42:18 -0700
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        "'Andreas Bischoff'"
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Andreas Bischoff wrote:
> We are almost done with compiling Tcl7.6 Tk4.2 BLT XTcl...
>
> One major function missing for a lot of tcl functionality is mkfifo.
>

Fifo's analog in win32 are named pipes. It's possible to implement mkfifo() 
etc with named pipes, but... on NT only. Windows 95 can't create server 
side of a pipe.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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