From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 12:30:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA15435 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:30:46 -0700 Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [198.137.146.49]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA15429 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:30:43 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA04902; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 13:30:17 -0600 Message-Id: <199506121930.NAA04902@rover.village.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Subject: Re: Minor nits about bindist... Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:01:08 PDT Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 13:30:16 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : They are called mailboxes, and they look kinda like a named pipe, get : a set of VMS programmers manuals (about 6 3" volumes) and look it up :-). My copy of the OpenVMS I/O User's Reference Manual has them in chapter 4, if that helps. :-) Warner