CM>
  >            Are there one or many pipes?
CM>

  One named pipe, with as many instances as you desire to have multiple
  clients connected simultaneously.

CM>
  > Who opens the pipe(s)?
CM>

  The server creates and opens the pipes, telling OS/2 how many
  instances to support.  The clients then open the other end to start a
  connection.

  You can read all about this in the Control Program Guide and Reference
  supplied in your Developers' Toolkit, in the section entitled pipes.
  It's quite thoroughly explained.  Even I understand it.  (-:

CM>
  > What are they called?  How do processes on
  > different machines, (namely: Client and Server) become
  > aware of the name of the pipe in use?
CM>

  You design that bit.  Either the names are hardwired, or you have some
  way for the user to configure the pipe name (and the server name for
  the clients), by using an INI file or a command-line argument, say.

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