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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c0bf571933019d30 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!c03.atl99!news.usenetserver.com!news02.tsnz.net!newsfeed01.tsnz.net!news!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!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 References: <87ekpyk220.fsf@insalien.org> Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:30:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.51.35.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1083839440 203.51.35.193 (Thu, 06 May 2004 20:30:40 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 20:30:40 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:311 Date: 2004-05-06T10:30:40+00:00 List-Id: Thanks for that. I'm familiar with the OS/2 APIs for named pipes - I wrote a partial thin binding to them years ago. My impression is that named pipes were invented, or at least introduced, by Microsoft and therefore are common to both OS/2 and Windows. As I said, I was looking for something a little more portable. I'll try Florist. Paul "Ludovic Brenta" wrote in message news:87ekpyk220.fsf@insalien.org... > Mark Lorenzen writes: > > Named pipes is a POSIX invention. You should therefore use the > > ISO/IEC 14519 Ada interface to POSIX-like operating systems. The > > GNAT implementation is called 'florist'. > > I don't know who invented them, but I am prety sure OS/2 and Windows > both have named pipes and they do not use anything resembling a POSIX > interface. For example, on OS/2: > > http://www.edm2.com/os2api/Dos/DosConnectNPipe.html > > I don't think there is a portable interface to named pipes, is there? > > -- > Ludovic Brenta.