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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Minor nits about bindist...
To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
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> : 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.

Look up "Allocate Event Flag Cluster" while you are there in the system
services manual.

VMS is just as scatter-brained as everything else.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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