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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feed.news.tiscali.de!uio.no!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.get2net.dk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Named Pipes References: From: Mark Lorenzen Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PTcH2ASJ1wc9lo9QokxyKMnDCds= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 00:07:50 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.180.17.200 X-Complaints-To: abuse@colt-telecom.dk X-Trace: news.get2net.dk 1083791183 82.180.17.200 (Wed, 05 May 2004 23:06:23 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 23:06:23 CEST Organization: Colt Telecom Kunde Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:291 Date: 2004-05-06T00:07:50+02:00 List-Id: "Paul" writes: > 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 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'. - Mark Lorenzen