On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Pit Capitain wrote:

> Maybe some day there'll be other ways to communicate with the 
> iowa servers. What I don't like about the named pipes is that there 
> can be no more than one server process per application. We'll 
> see...

See http://www.rubytalk.com/17990 for an alternate method (that should
work better on windows).

Cheers,
avi