Re: Named Pipes

[moseley@hank.org]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:16:04PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:24:09AM -0700, moseley@hank.org wrote:
> > 
> > I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images.

> Do you have a particular task in mind? If so, maybe someone knows of an
> alternative way without depending on named pipes.

Well, yes a random image "file".  I was thinking for using it for xdm at 
first, but when I started thinking about it I ended up wondering more 
about named pipes than the task I started out to solve.  

There's a lot of ways to do random images, I just though a named pipe 
might be a simple way to do it.  Which is is.

Thanks,


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Bill Moseley
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