Igor, Lighten up will you. I don't really have any more information. The mkfifo command is Cygwin does not work. You can't create a named pipe. I understand that Microsoft provides named pipes to Windows through its Microsoft Platform SDK. I don't have this kit. I was hoping that maybe someone did and could comment on the named pipe issue and whether there might be a way to get them to work under Cygwin.
Gerry Reno --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Gerry Reno wrote: > > > The mkfifo command still reports that the function is not > > implemented. I believe that named pipes are available for windows > > through the Microsoft Platform SDK. Does anyone know if these > named > > pipes can be made to work under Cygwin? > > > > thx, > > Gerry Reno > > Not nearly enough information for any reasonable response. Please > read > <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> for guidelines on effective > posting. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his > route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/