[fpc-pascal] pipe question

[Adam Naumowicz]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
> On 2 aug 2006, at 17:33, Adam Naumowicz wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to launch an external command, feed its input and catch its 
>> output on Unix? AFAIK POpen allows to get hold of the input or output, but 
>> not both - or am I missing something? Of course, one could open a temporary 
>> file to store the command's input or output and then redirect,
>> but it's not what I need.
>
> See http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Executing_External_Programs
>
> (in particular the section 'Example of "talking" with aspell process' at the 
> bottom)

Great, thanks a lot for your response - I'd rather avoid using TProcess, 
but I'll take a look at the examples and try to figure out myself the 
low-level stuff behind.

Adam