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These are named pipes, not command line pipes. Windows NT was the first version of DOS that had them and they were copied from UNIX.
by WildUtah 10y ago
These are named pipes, not command line pipes. Windows NT was the first version of DOS that had them and they were copied from UNIX.
- minxomat 10y agoIn Windows, specifically using |, the pipe is anonymous[0]. Named pipes can be created, but named pipes (fifos) on Windows are substantially different from those on unix. Named pipes are not relevant to the pipes my reference above introduces in Windows 95's DOS system. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_pipe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_pipe [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe
- JdeBP 10y agoWindows NT was not a version of MS-DOS at all. This is why it had true pipes, of course. Their semantics largely came from OS/2, not from Unix.