[TxMt] persisting and communicating with an external process over a period of time

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Oct 6, 2006, at 10:48 AM, sam aaron wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> What I want to do is to have the process persist over command
> triggers. i.e. One trigger might start the process, another might feed
> it information and do something with the response (this command may be
> called multiple times, and each time it would communicate with the
> same process, rather than create a new process), and a final trigger
> might end the process.
>
This is something I've been wanting to do also, to use in the R  
Console and elsewhere. Allan told me that something like this should  
be possible via a "named pipe" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
Named_pipe), though I haven't had time to look closely into it.

> Is this at all possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam Aaron
>
Haris