in reply to pipes on NT

I've never had that problem. But here's a clue: look up GetConsoleMode in a win32 API reference, and see under what the preconditions are.

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Re: Re: pipes on NT
by Avox (Sexton) on Feb 05, 2003 at 21:52 UTC
    Well, I've written a small test program to use instead of app.exe. The pipe seems to work. So the problem must be that app.exe does something goofy. If anyone has any workaround ideas, by all means, fire away. /me wonders why things must be so difficult.