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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Connecting Input() to output
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Date: 5 Jul 90 05:07:41 GMT
References: <12432@june.cs.washington.edu>
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In article <12432@june.cs.washington.edu> dylan@june.cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee) writes:
>I want this filehandle to be readable by my program (the same one
>that called up the post.library) so it can interact and recieve 
>output from the interpreter.  (Namely to get font widths into an
>internal array.)
...
>Short of asking Adrian to rewrite the file-io interface (my next
>step...) can anyone think of a way to connect processes in this 
>manner?  It doesn't seem like it should be impossible, since I'm
>really not asking any more than having a pipe between post and me.

	No problem.  Use pipes.  Open("PIPE:myfile",MODE_NEWFILE) to give
to Post, and Open("PIPE:myfile",MODE_OLDFILE) for your program to read from.

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