Are there any "named pipes" vis in planning?

[Unit23]

As we must implement a device which can only be controlled via a named pipe, there is no possibilty for us to use another method. How is this done in principle? The information you can find at "www.microsoft.com" are more confusion than helpful 😕

Cheers Urban

[Dennis_Knutson]

There are named pipes in the Unix versions of LabVIEW. I once used them to pass data between applications.

[Unit23]

Hi Dennis,
that is nice to hear but what can i do if i have to use a windows based system? Everybody is talking about win2000 and named pipes. Will this problem be the first one LV cannot solve? 🙂

Cheers Urban

[Dennis_Knutson]

My guess is since named pipes already exist in LabVIEW for Unix, NI will eventually make them available to Win2000 users if enough request the feature.

[CraigGraham]

Well, it's kinda difficult since named pipes are a Unix thing, rather than
something specific to Unix Labview. This means that even if NI bring named
pipes support into Win versions of Labview, it will be little use since
other Win applications do not support communication through them.

Bit like hassling NI to provide ActiveX functionality in Unix LV and
expecting this to allow you to hook into Star Office in the same way as you
can with MS Office.

Dennis Knutson wrote in message
news:506500000005000000D4260000-986697009000@quiq.com...
> My guess is since named pipes already exist in LabVIEW for Unix, NI
> will eventually make them available to Win2000 users if enough request
> the feature.

[Dennis_Knutson]

I agree but from some of the information from Microsoft, it appears that named pipes are or will be a feature of Windows 2000.

[Unit23]

Ave Craig,
at least two of the programs i have to "talk"
to in win2000, do this via named pipes. I phoned to there support and they told me, that this will be definiteley the future in there applications (win2000).
So i will definitely have a problem if thee is no named pipe solution for me in win2000

Thanx so far for your information

Cheers
Urban

[abrause]

Could you describe what you mean by "named pipes"?
Isn't this a UNIX method of passing data between applications?
How does a Windows application utilize named pipes?

Confused...

Alan


"Unit23" wrote in message news:50650000000500000059270000-986697009000@quiq.com...
> Ave Craig,
> at least two of the programs i have to "talk"
> to in win2000, do this via named pipes. I phoned to there support and
> they told me, that this will be definiteley the future in there
> applications (win2000).
> So i will definitely have a problem if thee is no named pipe solution
> for me in win2000
>
> Thanx so far for your information
>
> Cheers
> Urban