> on the other side of the pipe also needs some fitting machinery As far as I remember, it just needs to open the pipe with the appropriate call (`CreateFile`). Basic Windows tools like the `type` command should have no problem reading from the pipe.
The problem I had last time I tried to use Named Pipes is that I couldn't make them persistent and had to close them and recreate after each write operation (the part my program controlled was the server/read-side that was written to, substituting a UNIX socket/FIFO for IPC). That's ugly but works and that was all I cared at the moment.
