From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Mon Mar 12 18:53:15 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 13 Mar 2001 02:53:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 67556 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2001 02:53:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2001 02:53:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta1 with SMTP; 13 Mar 2001 02:53:14 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.10.0/8.10.0/ITS-5.0/standard) with SMTP id f2D2rDd09773 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:53:13 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:53:12 -0700 (MST) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] "Pipes" and other computer terms In-Reply-To: <01031221414201.29617@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jay Kominek On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, cmeclax po'u le cmevi'u ke'umri wrote: > I'm writing a list of computer terms and am trying to come up with a word for > "pipe". "samtubnu" or "datnytubnu" makes no sense, as pipes in a computer > aren't hollow or made of material. I thought of "datnyxle", but that seems more > appropriate to "socket", as anyone with the appropriate permissions can read or > write a named pipe, whereas only one process at a time can read a socket, and datnyfle (datni flecu) comes to mind as appropriate. It has a sense of unidirectionality which is appropriate for UNIX pipes. - Jay Kominek UNIX is all about covering up the fact that you can't type.