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From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: Regular pipe vs. Named Pipe
Message-ID: <28552162.546B@tct.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 19:15:45 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.195953.27744@digi.lonestar.org> <14079@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <14192: Jun923:16:0791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL

According to brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein):
>Pipes are part of UNIX.  Named pipes aren't.

The second quoted sentence is vacuous.  There is no longer any one OS
that can be called "UNIX".

>Basically, pipes work the same way everywhere, and named pipes don't.

Granted.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.com>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
          perl -e 'sub do { print "extinct!\n"; }   do do()'