On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, christophe.poucet / gmail.com wrote: > A possible suggestion: > Maybe use sockets? happen to be reading about that now... ;-) the thing with pipes is testing can be done like ~ > cat test_stdin > pipe which is __extremely__ handy for testing. -a -- =============================================================================== | email :: ara [dot] t [dot] howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | phone :: 303.497.6469 | Your life dwells amoung the causes of death | Like a lamp standing in a strong breeze. --Nagarjuna ===============================================================================