[lug] Named pipe and network tool?

[John Hernandez]

Netcat is really useful for generic network/file operations.  I'm not positive it will do what you want, but nc (aka netcat) is sort of a "network swiss army knife".

Good luck,
John

Chris Riddoch wrote:
> 
> Hi, everyone.
> 
> I'm looking for a tool that acts as an intermediary between a named
> pipe and a network socket.  Basically, it would read from the named
> pipe and send that data over the network to a server, and it would
> take responses from the server and send them into the named pipe.
> 
> Why? There's a program I'm documenting in the pilot-link package,
> pi-port, that acts as a server accepting connections to a pilot on the
> same computer -- connect your pilot-aware program to port 4386 on the
> machine with the pilot running pi-port, and you've got a network sync.
> 
> Problem is, most of the pilot-link tools, and many of the others, talk
> to the pilot by working directly with the serial or USB device.  If
> the program were made to talk to a named pipe, though, and the daemon
> could connect that to the server, there would be a flow of data
> something like this:
> 
> pilot <-> pi-port <-network-> *** <-> named pipe <-> application (e.g. jpilot)
> 
> Is this a sensible way of doing it?  And what's the program that fits
> in the *** spot?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
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> Chris Riddoch         |  epistemological
> socket at peakpeak.com   |  humility
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