Hi, I am a scientist and use PERL code to connect a commercial package with my own Fortran code. The data generated from the commercial package will be the input data for my Fortran code, and then the output from my Fortran code will be the input for the commercial package. This procedure will be conducted over 1,000,000 times to finish my calculation for a scientific simulation. The way I used to exchange data between my Fortran code and the commercial package is to write it into the hard disk and then read it from the hard disk. This makes my calculation very inefficient. Is it possible by PERL code to make data communication between my Fortran code and the commercial package like a subroutine in a pure Fortran code?