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Write and Read on Pipes

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