I do not have 2 COM ports on the back of my PC, so I am trying to use an internal software pretend comport.
I am trying to use Named Pipes, as I require bidirectional FIFO comms. However, the examples I have seen all depend on knowing whether you are programming the client or server end of the pipe.. i.e. server: CreateNamedPipe().... Client: ConnectNamedPipe()...
I am trying to encapsulate this in a class so I can use the same code in both client and server ends... which ever end starts first will create the pipe, and which ever is last out will close the pipe. (hopefully, windows is clever enough to know that when I CloseHandle() the last one out will destroy the resources??? )
Any Ideas please???
Thanks.
Nigel.
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