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From: dougp@sbphy.ucsb.edu
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Subject: Re: Using PIPE: device
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Date: 31 Jan 89 04:19:18 GMT
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In article <167@nrl-cmf.UUCP>, healy@nrl-cmf.UUCP (Liam Healy) writes...

>I am having trouble using the PIPE: device.

This may or may not have anything to do with the trouble you are having.
I have found that the pipe names are case sensitive, and that the case 
sensitivity extends to the "pipe:" part of the name as well.  As an
example:

Pipe:a

is not the same as:

pipe:a

If one of your programs is fiddling with the case of its filenames, you 
will have to figure out what it is changeing them to (all upercase, 
all lower case, or something more perverse :-) and match it to get 
the proper pipe.

Actualy I consider this a bug in the pipe: device, I think pipes should 
be case insensitive like filenames are, it would certainly reduce the
number of hung systems caused by missmatched pipes.

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