Got another question. I need to tell a program called brutefir what to do with perl on the same system. I've been reading http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html and frankly I don't get it. Can someone give me a sort of basic example that applies specifically to brutefir. Brutefir docs say it will accept cli through telnet, a local socket, a pipe, or a serial line. I'm assuming a pipe is the ideal why to communicate with it but please correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know much about pipes. The simplest command to test with is abort I'd say because it kills the program, pretty easy to see. I don't think I will need to return any data from brutefir but if it's simple enough I'm sure it might come in handy. Thanks in advance, Bronston

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