Thank you for the quick response.

From Pipe Opens:

"If you would like to open a bidirectional pipe, the IPC::Open2 library will handle this for you."

From Bidirectional Communication with Another Process:

"While this works reasonably well for unidirectional communication, what about bidirectional communication? The obvious thing you'd like to do doesn't actually work:" 
    open(PROG_FOR_READING_AND_WRITING, "| some program |")

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"and if you forget to use the use warnings pragma or the -w flag, then you'll miss out entirely on the diagnostic message:" 
    Can't do bidirectional pipe at -e line 1.

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Am I misinterpreting what that says? I may need to take a step back and revisit this in a bit to get a clearer perspective.

In reply to Re^2: Bidirectional IPC with Expect and Passthrough by steve
in thread Bidirectional IPC with Expect and Passthrough by steve

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