Subj : Re: food fite
To   : Digital Man
From : fusion
Date : Mon Jul 01 2024 12:31 am

On 29 Jun 2024, Digital Man said the following...
 
 DM>  > Maybe if the DOS door used named pipes to talk to a proper 32-bit
 DM>  > locally-run server that then talked to the MRC server?
 DM> 
 DM> DOS programs don't support named pipes.

indeed they do. i can open and read from for example

\\.\pipe\something

from a dos pascal program and from what i've tested at least int21/5F35h  (DosPeekNmPipe) and 5F33h (DosQNmPHandleState) seem to work to query pipe status 

http://www.ctyme.com/intr/int-21.htm

On Windows 7 32-bit. OS/2 works too, but differenly.

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