Re: Access named pipe in Windows XP

"Jim" <donotreply@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>I know this question came up before, but I don't see a clear answer to it.
>
> I want to write to a named pipe from my script, but the "open" function
> below doesn't seem to work.
>
> set p [open "\\\\.\\Pipe\\my_test_pipe" w]
>
> However, the open function in Perl works just fine:
> open(p, "> \\\\.\\Pipe\\my_test_pipe")
>
> Could anybody shed any light on this?
>
> TIA,
> Jim
>
>
>

I use a named pipe with w+ and it seems to be the working combination. Don't
know why it works but it does.
set pipe [open "\\\\$host\\pipe\\FISIMULATOR" w+]
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:09:55 2006