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- PIPES
-
-
- The PIPE sample demonstrates how to write a program that uses pipes for
- transferring data between the client and the server. The client sends a
- file to the server using pipes. The server then "encodes" the data by
- adding 1 to every element in the file, and then sends the file back using
- pipes. The pipe used in this sample program is a in/out pipe.
-
- This program also allows the user to compile either for UNICIODE or ANSI.
- See section below for guidelines on how to compile for UNIOCDE
-
-
- FILES
- =====
-
- The directory SAMPLES\RPC\PIPES contains the following files for
- building the sample distributed application PIPES:
-
- File Description
- -------------------------
-
- README.TXT Readme file for the pipe sample
- PIPE.IDL Interface definition language file
- PIPE.ACF Attribute configuration file
- PIPEC.C Client main program
- PIPES.C Server main program
- COMMON.H Common header file for all the files
- PIPEPROC.C Remote procedures
- MAKEFILE nmake file to build 32-bit client and server app.
- for ANSI characters.
- MAKEFILE.UNI nmake file to build 32-bit client and server app.
- for UNICODE characters.
-
-
- NMAKE builds the executable programs CLIENT.EXE (client) and
- SERVER.EXE (server).
-
- Note: The client and server applications can run on the same
- Microsoft Windows NT computer when you use different screen groups.
-
-
-
- COMPILING FOR UNICODE:
- ======================
-
- type nmake /f makefile.uni at the command line. This will cause
- the compiler to use the file MAKEFILE.UNI instead of the MAKEFILE.
-
- The reason behind the use of TEXT, TCHAR, _TUCHAR, _tprintf, _tcscpy, _tcscmp,
- and _tfopen is that the program can easily be compiled to support UNICODE
- (Wide characters) as well as supporting one byte ANSI characters.
-
- TEXT : This macro will put an L in front of the string if we are
- compiling for UNICODE, and do nothing if compiling for ANSI
- TCHAR : expands to either char or wchar_t during compilation
- _TUCHAR : expands to either unsigned char or wchar_t during compilation
- _tprintf: expands to either printf or to wsprintf during compilation
- _tcscpy : expands to either strcpy or to wcscpy during compilation
- _tcscmp : expands to either strcmp or to wcscmp during compilation
- _tfopen : expands to either fopen or to _wfopen during compilation
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