PS> Hi!

 PS> I'm writing a routine that will handle some serial I/O 
 PS> (modem), and I need to 
 PS> use a pipe in message mode. I know how to read/write to message pipes 
 PS> (DosTransactNPipe or something, don't remember, but I 
 PS> can look it up in a 
 PS> second), but how do I create a message pipe? Nothing's 
 PS> said about message-mode 
 PS> in the descriptions for DosCreatePipe. 

Message pipes are a type of NAMED PIPE.

DosCreatePipe() is for anonymous pipes -- a completely different monster, 
from the unix world,  ususally used for redirection and piping the output
from one program to another.

DosCreateNPipe() is used to create named pipes, message mode or byte mode.

   > And I want it
 PS> to be unnamed, since 
 PS> several processes will call the same routine.

More than one process can use the same pipe name to connect to the server
process(es).


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