BJ> I haven't used it, but both Binkley 2.60 (and Binkley XE, since it is 
 BJ> derived from 2.60) and Maximus (2.0 on?) allow for 
 BJ> the use of maxpipe under OS/2 (and later Win32 
 BJ> Max?).  If I understand things correctly, you could 
 BJ> think of Unixed named pipes as what was implemented 
 BJ> under OS/2....  So, this should be relatively 
 BJ> simple to implement for pipes that are used.  I'm 
 BJ> not sure if a keyword will need to be added under 
 BJ> Linux to turn off creation of the named pipes when 
 BJ> they are not used (or direct them to /dev/null when 
 BJ> not used).
 
So, what were they used *for*? The only Bink/Max
"interoperability" I've spotted in the source code has to do with
the OS/2 semaphores.
 
Wes

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