Message-ID: <42EE67B7.2000406@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2005-08-01T18:19:35Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: fifo on Windows
In-Reply-To: <971536df05080110104b457079@mail.gmail.com>
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Are there any plans to support fifo on Windows? On my XP
> system ("R version 2.1.1, 2005-06-23")
>
> R> capabilities("fifo")
>
> gives FALSE.
>
> Note that Windows does support named pipes as shown
> in the utility:
>
> http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/fwu/pipeslot.zip
I think named pipes are only supported on the NT descendants. We will
need to drop support for Win9x soon, but I think we still have a number
of users using Win98 and maybe WinME.
I guess we could add support for features that only work on some Windows
platforms, but I'd rather not do that until we're not officially saying
that R runs on Win9x.
Duncan Murdoch