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From: bruceki@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce KING)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: LAN Manager Questions
Summary: MSDOS lan manager and OS/2 Lan Manager details
Message-ID: <53517@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 90 20:50:34 GMT
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Reply-To: bruceki@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce KING)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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  You can run named pipes between applications as long as the network you
are running on top of supports named pipes.  All versions of lan manager
support named pipes, all versions of os/2 support named pipes.  

  The network product that preceeded lan manager, MsNet, does not support named
pipes and so cannot support their use.  

  Synopsis:  If you run lan manager, whether it's an os/2 server, an os/2
workstation, or an msdos workstation, you have the ability to support named
pipes.  If you run MsNet, you cannot use named pipes unless you wrote your
own support for it.  

  So if you set up a network consisting of one os/2 server, one os/2 client
and one msdos client all running lan manager software (msdos lan manager in
the case of the msdos client) you could run named pipes to any of those
machines, and everything would work fine.  You can add MsNet machines to
that network, and they would be compatible with the lan manager systems
as far as shared devices and shared files go, but you would not be able to
use named pipes to or from them.  

  That answer your question?  

  Bruce King / Microsoft U / (206) 882-8080 / bruceki@microsoft.UUCP