Hi, Wel, there is no such thing as a 2-way pipe in BASH, which is very unfortunate. Not even in the latest version of BASH 3.0. The way to use named pipes with BASH, is starting the GTK-server within your BASH script with 2 arguments: 1) the argument 'fifo' to put the GTK-server into named pipe mode, and 2) the actual filename which will be used as the named pipe. Also it is recommended to use the latest version of the GTK-server, since the 1.x series cannot handle all float arguments in GTK calls, and cannot use more than 8 arguments in a GTK call. The 2.x series do not have these limitations. Best regards Peter Citeren Gilbert <amigo@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello, > I'm quite interested in your application. I would like to use the > GTK-1.2 version under Linux with BASH. however, I'm having trouble > setting up a two-way pipe. > Is there a BASH equivalent for the KSH '|&'? > Can you supply any more axample of usage with BASH using stdin? > Also, to use with FIFO, do I need to give an argument with the name of a > script snippet -or? > Thanks, > Gilbert Ashley > > -- http://www.gtk-server.org