Has anyone tried using cygwin? My guess is that this would work there. (URL Escapes me but I could find it if there's interest) For those that don't know, cygwin is a GNU environment built to run in MS. They've got everything from gawk to XFree86 to Gnome. (useable under most flavors of windows) I'm sure mkfifo is there.. if netcat isn't, I could give an example that works using rsh. (or ssh) Shawn > > On 05/12/2004 06:20:43 PM, Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> It's quite a paradox. MS provides an extremely robust implementation of pipes, but does not make them available from the command line. > > Now you touched the essence of reliability, Microsoft way. Thing that is not used is extremely reliable, because it doesn't make any problems. Please, note that I'm not biased. I don't care what OS I am working on, as long as it looks and smells like Unix. > -- > Mladen Gogala > Oracle DBA ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------