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From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Masterplan 1.00 (fwd)
Date: 14 Sep 1995 21:01:34 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Some time ago (Thu, 14 Sep 1995 12:46:10 -0400) honorable -Vince-, 
residing at 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..

Named pipes? The standard part of Unix? Of course you can have them.
	mkfifo <pipe_name>
(As opposite to mknod <pipe_name> -p on SunOS)
	-mi