Named Pipes as Files

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From: Mike King
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:43

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From time to time, I find that it would be nice to pipe input into a GUI 
application like one would do for a console application by using the '|' 
character.  Is it possible to create a named pipe and pull content from it 
as if it were a file?

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