Re: Named Pipes as Files

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:27

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Mike King wrote:

>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?

What is it exactly, that you want to do?
'|' and '<' redirected stdin.
'>' redirected stdout.

Those pipes still work from the commandline.

An application can create pipes, and launch a sub program that will
then think those pipes are stdin and stdout.
See CreateProcess(), and in particular, the STARTUPINFO structure.

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