From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: mkfifo anyone ? 14 Jun 1997 07:42:18 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC78E5.1EBBA870.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Andreas Bischoff'" Encoding: 14 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".