Warp wrote:
>   Yes. The difference is whether a program can programmatically create
> pipes or not. For example in unix systems (and probably in Windows as
> well) a program can create a named pipe, after which it can write data
> to it, and then another program can read the data from it. It works like
> a data queue between programs. In fact, more than one program can write
> to the pipe (although if two programs do so at the same time, it's not
> guaranteed in which order the data will come out).

However Windows named pipes aren't part of the filesystem. Unix's mkfifo is
*very* useful.

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