>  DM> How about the queue says, "On pipe \pipe\bbs\node1, give
me message #8
 >  DM> in message area handle 0x12345678," and the message is put in the
 >  DM> pipe.  If the client reads the first 8 bytes and says,
"Nope," it can
 >  DM> just flush the pipe.

 >   You even can use "\\workstation\pipe\bbs\node1", ie share
your station 
 > among two or 2000 CPUs ;) And I don't think that sending 2-3 kb of message 
 > is really hard for cpu -- in my case, sending 1.5-2M through pipes beetween 
 > two workstations takes not so much time, including search through index at 
 > server and dropping useless records at client. I use general protocol

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That's the way I WANT to do it, and I probably will. I just hope you're 
right about sending big datablock through pipes not hogginh the CPU too much.

Thank you very much! You gave me some new ideas...

/ Peter Schuller   [TeamOS/2]   petersch{at}kuai.se

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