Thus it was written in the epistle of Lars Appel,
> I also seem to recall that named pipes do not have the
> "fifo buffering" of MSG files, i.e. you cannot write data
> into a named pipe before there is a reader at the opposite
> end.

That's my understanding of the named pipes, at least as implemented in Un*x.
They are "zero-length" files.  When you write to them, they call blocks until
someone else reads and vice versa.

Ted
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