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From: Tony Harverson <tony@hornet.netac.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Named pipes...
To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 08:10:00 +0200 (SAT)
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> 
> How does one create a named pipe?  In other OS's 'mknod' has a -p option, 
> but not in FreeBSD (or any BSD?).  Suggestions?

man mkfifo


Tony
(who's decided that short answers save on bandwidth ;)