credit cards and fP

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:08:10 -0500):

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> RawQuery uses a file for its data field input.  I -can- make it possible to
> specify that it read its file from STDIN for IPC purposes.  The problem is
> filePro integration.  There's no way to -get it there-.  filePro's binaries
> all use STDOUT for their screen drawing, there's no (known, tTBOMK) way to
> suppress that without redirecting the entire stream, and fP lacks a popen()
> function that would make STDIN streams in called programs tennable.
>
> Any known solutions/workarounds?  Only thing I could think of would be
> using a named pipe, but that's *nix only.

Windows has named pipes:

     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365590(VS.85).aspx

Another option (which _is_ *nix only) is the USER command.

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