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Re: Re: Re: Making a perl program look like a regular file on Win32?

by clintp (Curate)
on Mar 03, 2004 at 14:01 UTC ( [id://333541]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Making a perl program look like a regular file on Win32?
in thread Making a perl program look like a regular file on Win32?

I've had good luck with feeding DOS apps UNC names (\\system\file) in the past, if you can make the file being read a UNC filename then host it on a separate box.

This "separate box" being a Unix machine using Samba (or some other file sharing system). The "file" can then be a unix named pipe as mentioned in previous responses, or you can hack samba directly to run programs to generate I/O to fill this "file" as it's being served out.

Well, I mean as long as we're talking insane ideas....

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