OPEN PIPE

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• Last revised: 2023-06-24

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Opens an external process' standard input (stdin) or output (stdout) stream, using it as if it were file operations.

Syntax

Open Pipe shell_command For Input As [#]filenumber
Open Pipe shell_command For Output As [#]filenumber
Open Pipe shell_command For Binary access_type [#]filenumber

Usage

` result = Open Pipe( command[,] For {Input|Output}[,] As filenumber )

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