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From: dale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Luck - Amiga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: pipe.device ??
Message-ID: <13228@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 16 Jul 90 16:11:13 GMT
References: <9007122133.AA07929@eggroll.tau.ac.il>
Reply-To: dale@cbmvax (Dale Luck - Amiga)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <9007122133.AA07929@eggroll.tau.ac.il> <finkel%math.tau.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> writes:
>I wanted to write down some serial code, when I suddenly thought how nice
>it would be to have a pipe.device! This device will behave very much
>like the dos pipe: (thanks Matt!), but on the device level. from the software
>point of view it will look like the serial.device, only it will buffer data
>inside the Amiga's memory, so several programs could open different units
>of the same pipe.device and exchange data.
>
There already is such a device that is being used in the Network
Working Group. It is the local domain device for SANA and handles
ipc stream connections between tasks on the same machine. There are
other SANA conforming devices that are being worked on or already
available. Such as TSSnet (DECnet for the Amiga), some tcp/ip implementations
as well as others.

Connections are not based on unit numbers but are actually a name
in the file system domain.

If you would like more specific imformation please email back.
Dale Luck
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.