Subj : Re: Use functions
To   : comp.programming
From : rem642b
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 12:13 pm

> From: futureofai@gmail.com
> I need to send an email and receive an email using my program. My
> program is in COBOL and as you know it has no features to access mail
> servers and so on. I can write to a file and read input from a file. Is
> there any way I can achieve this?

If you're trying to do this on Unix or Linux, you can use a FIFO to
pass data between the COBOL program and any other program you want. The
FIFO looks (to the program) just like a disk file, but in fact it's a
facade for a pipe between one process writing to it and another process
reading from it. Use two FIFOs if you want to get a response back in
the other direction too.

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