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STDIN/STDOUT is local machine, native, L,

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/messaging.html#native-messaging

The same format is used to send messages in both directions: each message is serialized using JSON, UTF-8 encoded and is preceded with 32-bit message length in native byte order.
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