At 2:26 AM -0800 4/5/03, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote:

>    open (ANALOG, "|$analog +g-");  # errors here will get caught on close

>Does this kind of thing work on VMS?  Can you bring up a process to listen
>on the other end of a pipe and have bidirectional communication with it?

I've never used this construct, but my understanding is that the trailing minus sign 
is telling it to do an implicit fork().  Since Perl on VMS doesn't have fork(), I 
don't think it will work.
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