First of all, thanks to both Oren and Yosef. Both solutions worked.

But, now I'm confused. Isn't the whole point of redirection that you can use a 
file to get input or accept output even if the program was originally desiged 
to work only from the command line? I don't see why the pipe or redirection I 
was using didn't do the job.

On Monday 18 October 2004 23:09, Yosef Meller wrote:
> Oron Peled wrote:
> > Now if you really insist that the file would contain:
> >   me "Shlomo" "this is a test message"
> >
> > Than you can do some shell judo:
> >   eval sendsms "`cat /tmp/tmp-sms`"
>
> Or simply:
>
> cat /tmp/tmp-sms | xargs sendsms

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Shlomo Solomon
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