Okay, thanks for the info! I think I understand how it works now. =)

As for, fork()... I tried it and it's not supported in VMS. I think I'm really going to want a bi-directional pipe at some point but without fork() I think I'm gonna be SOL. =(

Again, thanks much for explaining it to me! I couldn't remember where I'd heard that to look it up and perlipc didn't have that info (that I saw).

bbfu
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