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[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> (PvO) wrote:

>PvO> He didn't state that he has no control over that program. I.e. if it is a
>PvO> program that he has source code of, he could change its behaviour to use a
>PvO> named pipe.

He could do the initial run of the program with stdin and stdout redirected
to named pipes.At least on Unix that works, I don't know about Windows (but
why not). Later you can write input to the stdin pipe and read the output
back from the other one.
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Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
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