Is it possible to open a named pipe with command line in windows?

windows named-pipes
Alan picture Alan · Sep 8, 2010 · Viewed 15k times · Source

I want to interact with the pipe manually , but so far I can only do this in the programe,which is not very intuitive.

The effect I want to achieve is a little similar to :

telnet localhost 3306

tail -f file.txt

Anyone get my idea?

Answer

Dmitry picture Dmitry · Sep 27, 2012

Look here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/68941

There are two utilities shipped with SQL Server designed to help test network named pipes. The MakePipe.exe and ReadPipe.exe utilities are installed during installation of both the client and server components

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