Dear all, Some time ago there was a discussion here on using named pipes as a means of transferring data from the PC to UNIX. The following example from Brett Worth works very well. $ mknod pipe p $ cat pipe Meanwhile over on the PC... D:\tmp>echo hello > pipe Then back at the Unix machine: $ cat pipe hello $ However it does not seem to work in the opposite direction. I am not able to do a thing like: On UNIX: $ echo "hello" > pipe On the PC: d:\tmp>type pipe The last command releases the pipe on UNIX all right but it invariably returns an empty string. Any ideas somebody ? _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com