Re: Command and Data Pipe questions

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:15:30 -0500, E.D.G. wrote:

> "sfeam" <sfeam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> type of application.  I suggest that instead of fighting with the
>> mis-match between what you want to do and what Windows was designed
>> for, you instead reconsider your choice of operating environments.
>> Either change to linux, or install an operating layer such as cygwin on
>> top of Windows. In both of these, the use of pipes is trivial, and the
>> tools you want to use are designed to make this easy.
> 
> The problem is that the Perl program I have developed is going to be
> sent as a freeware .exe program to researchers around the world who know
> absolutely nothing about computer programming (not that I know that much
> myself) and who are using Windows.  Otherwise I would have just had
> people install a Perl compiler.  A lot of time could have been saved.

I wonder whether it might be worth your while having a look at the Octave 
numerical programming suite (an open source Matlab clone, more or less):

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/about.html

As I recall, Octave communicates with Gnuplot for plotting and is 
available on Windows; perhaps they have solved some of the problems you 
are facing.

-- 
Lionel B