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Sadly the situation is quitly political more then tecnical. You know how sometimes logic goes lost in political decicions. I am sadly not able to change external.sh nor ask for an update. I hoped actually to solve that in my PERL-Program. Like greping the child-process and send STDIN there or something like that. And "Somebody" left the company and (lucky guy) went to Australia 2 years ago. He was a nice guy who would have bypassed the political decicion in order to get things done.
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Re^3: Interact external Program's child.
by JavaFan (Canon) on Nov 06, 2011 at 21:46 UTC
    1. Don't try to use technical solutions to fix political problems.
    2. Talk to the next "Somebody". Or do you work for a company where code is considered sealed and unmodifiable when the original author left the company?
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      I guess the Problem there is that they really didn't look for a similar replacement for that guy. And they want to decomission that Programm. But we still need it. But either way thank you all. And yes, I work in a very restrictive company.

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        If they want to decommission that program, you shouldn't write a new program interacting with it. Otherwise, you're creating a new dependency, making it even harder to decommission the program.
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