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to: Ruud Senden
from: Doug Glenn
date: 1994-12-29 16:27:42
subject: Unnamed pipes

Hello Ruud!

In a message to All  Ruud Senden wrote:

RS> is no command or status information on a pipe, the DosRead()-call blocks
RS> until something is written to the pipe.

    In looking under remarks on DosRead, I see there is a call
    DosPeekNPipe that you can use to determine if there is something
    there to read before issuing the DosRead function.

Later!

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