Hi!
Mailslot is a simple & fast IPC (Inter Processus Call) (who use UDP & SMB). It's inside Windows from long time ago. With Vista, the (re)-new tool Waitfor.exe can use it, for synchronize batchs, applis or scripts (in local computer or in a LAN). This next code show the use of Python+PyWin32 for send a signal to Mailslot. Like a "client" Mailslot: import win32file,win32con mailslot = win32file.CreateFile(r'\\.\mailslot\waitfor.exe\ALERTTEST', win32file.GENERIC_WRITE, 0, None, win32con.CREATE_NEW, 0, None) win32file.WriteFile(mailslot, "ABC") mailslot.Close() Now, my problem is: I am not able to write a Mailslot server. I don't found any wrapper of the (kernel32) CreateMailslot et ReadFile functions. On this subject, Google is not my friend... Any idea? Perhaps a feature for the next release of PyWin32? Thank you to have read me. Michel Claveau _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32