fifo already works on UNIX, I assume, so it seems its already
the situation that fifos are supported on some machines running
R but not on others. If they were supported on those Windows
platforms that can handle them then that would simply increase
the proportion of machines running R that can
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/pipeslo
