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From: ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Masterplan 1.00 (fwd)
Date: 14 Sep 1995 17:15:27 GMT
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-Vince- (vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu) wrote:
: Hi everyone,

: 	I am attempting to get masterplan working under FreeBSD but have 
: been unsuccessful so I emailed the author and was told that FreeBSD 
: doesn't allow named pipes to be created.  Can anyone confirm this and 
: know what I can do to get masterplan working?  Thanks..

Oh yes, it does.

The comand is POSIX mkfifo(1), not SVID2 mknod(1)

(had the same question :)

BTW, what is masterplan?  Care to make a port/package of it?

/Alby

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