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Programming Interfaces
External Program Interfaces : Named Pipes : UNIX named pipes : Accessing a named pipe within ABL
 
Accessing a named pipe within ABL
To access a named pipe from ABL, open it for input or output using the INPUT FROM and OUTPUT TO statements. For example, the following line of ABL code opens the previously created named pipe inpipe for input:
INPUT FROM inpipe NO-ECHO.
After invoking this statement, all input statements that use the unnamed stream, such as SET or IMPORT, take their input from inpipe.