Dag,
Under Windows NT the file system contains support for named pipes which
vastly simplifies the task of implementation. To the best of my knowledge the
named pipes under DOS were supplied by LAN Manager. The Win32 named pipe
API's are calls into the underlying file system. Since they rely on a file
system mechanism it is difficult to map them to the DOS FAT filesystem that
is part of DOS/Windows. I will see what I can find about using the file API's
to suppor this type of operation.
Thanks,
Michael Markley [Microsoft Developer Support]