From: phepworth AT s-vision DOT com (Paul Hepworth) Subject: RE: Pipe with TCL/TK 8 Apr 1998 10:26:43 -0700 Message-ID: <00D7B108BAFFD011B66D00A0C903629C174061.cygnus.gnu-win32@el-postino.s-vision.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: "'ian AT cygnus DOT com'" Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > What you should do is look at the expect program, at > expect/exp_event.c, where I had to get a similar thing to work. Look > particularly at make_pipe_channel and friends. That will show you how > to make a pipe channel that will work on Windows. It's pretty hairy. > Does it work on win95 as well as nt? I was under the impression that win95 only supported named pipe clients, not servers. Maybe the key here is NAMED. Anyway, the goal is to send messages to a non-gui app in a way that is portable between unix and windoze. My though was named pipes. My fallback was memory-mapped files. What would you suggest? Thanks. Paul - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".