[posted and mailed] Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>> Dear Paul >> we are nearly there but not quite. >> >> I did as above and see a new file created: c:\cygwin\home\Default >> User\.lyx\lyxpipe.in > > I don't think you are there at all. Either your OS supports pipes or > it does not. Pipes are not files. They are a part of main memory made > visible to the user who can manipulate their contents *as if* they > were a file. Pipes apparently don't work in Cygwin. Citing Claus Hentschel's page: > LyX-Pipes on Unix can be used to let external programs communicate with a running LyX application. Those LyX-Pipes are based on FIFOs, an interprocess communication mechanism which is not implemented in CygWin. -- Paul
