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Darin McBride pmmail@rpglink.com
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:28:37 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:00:45 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 6:03:34 PM, John wrote:
>>>    So if the program in question is running on OS/2 with me on a Windows box
>>>across campus with both mounting a samba mount I can have the program do what
>>>I want without worrying about it.
>
>> IIRC, OS/2 can create a named pipe over a network connection to accomplish
>> the same thing.
>
>    John....   OS/2 on one end, Windows on the other.  Named pipe?  How?

While I believe that OS/2 and Win32 both use the same NetBIOS-based
named pipe support, using that for semaphoring can be very difficult,
especially when you get n>2 processes involved.