What makes you think it's unmaintained?
Well I can't find many (if any) articles, examples, or blogs of anyone referencing or using this module beyond 2008 (including here on PerlMonks). The copyright is 1996 and the author himself indicates he "may or may not" maintain it. Finally, the CHANGES file in the latest zip appears to illustrate that the last change occurred on July 8, 2002. So it was more of an educated guess.
That warning applies to the "Object Oriented/Tied Handle Interface"
Fair enough -- I didn't realize this.

Though it still doesn't really answer my initial question -- what's the correct way to do it? Just as the 3 argument open is generally preferred over the 2 argument open, there has to be some community-accepted "right way" to do this. Is it via a standard "open("\\.\pipe\...") or via Win32::Pipe or via Win32API::File or via some other method entirely?

In reply to Re: Win32 named pipes by wojtyk
in thread Win32 named pipes by wojtyk

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