Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
>>>>> Is it possible to use the lyxserver utility on a windows XP
>>>>> platform.
>>>>
>>> | Not that I know of.
>>>
>>> I thought windows had named pipes?
>>
>> It definately has named pipes. But i have no idea how to get it to work.
>
| Lars is just confused ;-) The current implementation of the lyxserver will
| not work on Windows. It uses the unix API directly:
Well... no. but if some win person were to implement the named pipe
solution it would work.
... but the equivalent of local socket on win I have been unable to
find.
My thoughts for a later version is to use tcp/ip on both unix and win
(only listen on localhost), and have a file in .lyx telling what
port to connect to for a given lyx instance.
>
| access(2), close(2), fcntl(2), mkfifo(3), open(2), read(2), write(2)
>
| Not even MinGW will compile it.
what about cygwin?
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Lgb
