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"Bob Gonder" <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> wrote in message 
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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.

I was thinking about a pull-modal where the data is dynamic (probably 
endless) so a file would not be the best solution.  Just as an example, I 
would like Notepad to be able to read from the pipe.  So I would click 
File -> Open then type in \\.\pipe\mynamedpipe and click Open.  Notepad then 
would show me some data that would be produce by a Windows Service or a 
application that is running in the background.