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mailslot

n. (alternative spelling of mail slot English)

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MailSlot

A Mailslot is a one-way interprocess communication mechanism, available on the Microsoft Windows operating system, that allows communication between processes both locally and over a network. The use of Mailslots is generally simpler than named pipes or sockets when a relatively small number of relatively short messages are expected to be transmitted, such as for example infrequent state-change messages, or as part of a peer-discovery protocol. The Mailslot mechanism allows for short message broadcasts ("datagrams") to all listening computers across a given network domain.

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What had surprised Eggy was that someone had carved what, from a distance, looked like a giant mailslot right in the hillside.

It was, however, a mailslot that could swallow a light cruiser, even if it was set sideways.