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Now that you've got the phone number, dialed the phone, and waited for the other party to pick up, you still have
to say something. For example, your ``jonesin''' for the ever popular ``Land of the Lost'' 1975 sleestack costume
can't be satiated by simply calling up the nearest antiques dealer. After they answer the phone you have to actually
talk to them! Likewise, in the land of the GAT, after a process has called the Connect or Listen
function, they must actually send or receive data. In a call to the function Connect or Listen one
is returned a Pipe instance. Using the Read and Write functions on this Pipe instance one can read
from and write data to the remote process, and get your ``Land of the Lost'' fix.
Andre Merzky
2004-05-13
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