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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: quiz for Sequential_IO Read
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 23:51:55 +0200, Frank Buss <fb@frank-buss.de> declaimed
the following:

>On 09/04/2017 10:55 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On 2017-09-04 21:58, Frank Buss wrote:
>>> Would this be portable on all systems (assuming they provide FIFO
>>> files) ?
>>
>> You probably mean a pipe here?
>
>No, I'm using a FIFO file, created like this in Linux:
>
>mkfifo a=rw midi
>
>I need this, because I use the program "amdidi" to receive data from the 
>MIDI port.
>

	Based on https://linux.die.net/man/3/mkfifo , there is very little
difference... Other entries from Google use the term "named pipe":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe
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