From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,XPRIO autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c0bf571933019d30,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!newsfeed01.tsnz.net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Paul" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Named Pipes X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 11:23:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.168.158.67 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1083756209 139.168.158.67 (Wed, 05 May 2004 21:23:29 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 21:23:29 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:272 Date: 2004-05-05T11:23:29+00:00 List-Id: Is there a standard GNAT package for named pipes? I have looked but have found nothing. The package GNAT.Expect seems promising but it says it emulates the TCL expect tool. After reading web articles on TCL and Expect it probably does not do what I want. Trolling thru the web suggests that named pipes are not equal/the same across platforms - ie Win32 named pipes are not the same as Unix pipes. I confess to knowing zip about Unix. Can I assume the reason there is no standard GNAT package for named pipes is because it cannot be portable? I am in the process of converting an OS/2 Ada 83 program to OS/2 & Win32 Ada95 and am trying to reduce the number of platform dependancies. I've never really done any serious programming in Ada 95 until now and am discovering some really neat stuff in Ada 95 that didn't exist in Ada 83. OK so I'm 10 years late but I'm only doing it for fun - to keep the grey cells active. Cheers & TIA Paul