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echo: os2prog
to: Doug Nazar
from: Gerard Gerritsen
date: 1996-05-17 09:56:16
subject: Named pipes #2...

Hello Doug!

Tuesday May 14 1996, Doug Nazar writes to Gerard Gerritsen:

 DN> What's the error msg from DosOpen?

Someone else tested this for me, I will try to get more information as soon
as possible.

 DN>  And remember, when opening the pipe
 DN> from the client, you need to prepend the pipe name with the machine
 DN> name.

Done that, it would be something like
\\next\PIPE\PLAYPM2

Or is absolutely necesarry that the server name is in uppercase ?

 DN> then access this pipe from another machine, the actual name you pass to
 DN> DosOpen is '\\SERVER\pip\ourpipe'.

I assume you made a typo ? ( \pip\... )

==> Gerard/2   - member of team os/2 -  1000521{at}ibk.fnt.hvu.nl

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