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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Regular pipe vs. Named Pipe
Message-ID: <19369@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 10 Jun 91 13:32:53 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.195953.27744@digi.lonestar.org> <14079@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <14192:Jun923:16:0791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
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In article <14192:Jun923:16:0791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>Pipes are part of UNIX. Named pipes aren't. Named pipes appear in most
>(all?) System V releases and some BSD-derived releases, notably SunOS
>and Ultrix (where they are also called ``ports'').

Named pipes are in every AT&T-derived System V release given that they were
part of 5.0.  They were also in 4.0 [ which was never generally released ]
and they were even in System III.  [ tho I lack a set of "genuine Bell"
manuals to back that up with ... ]
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