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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: Problems compiling Flexfax v2.2pl1 on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1R
Date: 21 Sep 1994 10:45:35 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <35o99n$6nf@venus.mcs.com>, John A. LaCour III <jal@MCS.COM> wrote:
>1.  mkfifo: /var/spool/fax/FIFO: Operation not supported.
>
>I'm unable to use mkfifo to make named pipes from the shell, so I
>believe this to be a FreeBSD issue.

Recompile a kernel with `options FIFO' - we've made this a default in
subsequent versions.

					Jordan