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[SolarShado]

 just trying to get a look at the raw traffic. planning to use a netcat pipe.

so here's the question: how do i create a named pipe in windows vista? i know there's a command in linux, and i know windows has named pipes. but how can i use them without writing C# or something?

[PTTG??]

Hmm... I guess your only hope is to have a bunch of dwarves with the metalcrafter job enabled, and hope one of them fey-moods up an artifact pipe segment. Then you can get "Point Pointypointed the Points of Pointing, Copper Pipe Segment"

Or something like that.

Can't help you with vista, though. I'm still using XP.

[SolarShado]

well, in that case... any body know if it's do-able in xp and how?

[duro]

but how can i use them without writing C# or something?

Since W32 pipes are impermanent there's no real way to create one from outside a process (at least I don't know of any), if that was your question. When using W32 API functions one usually calls CreateFile I guess to create named pipes, at least that's what I did in the good ol' days.

CreateFile
Pipes
Pipe Functions

[SolarShado]

DANG. any idea if i can use cygwin to do it?

[duro]

Oh, misinterpreted you. fopen should work well too. Just use a proper pipe name like \\.\pipe\YourPipeName (thus "\\\\.\\pipe\\YourPipeName" in C (yay for backslashes!)).

[SolarShado]

erm, actually i'm looking for a "shell script" type solution. i'm alergic to C. perl and java i can do, tho.

[duro]

AFAIK in Java there's nothing to create named pipes. In Perl it might be the same as in C, using open instead of fopen (the manpages state both should behave the same), using the backslash orgy I posted earlier as file name.

[Calculus]

Why not use free http://www.wireshark.org/, if your are trying to get a look at network traffic?

Or am I misunderstanding your need?

[SolarShado]

Wow...
Thanks for the link! I didn't know such a thing existed, just looked at my problem and thought "netcat can probably do that!" but this'll do nicely. It's more than i really know what to do with, but i'll figure it out

Thanks again!