On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:50:19AM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote: > Max Bian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > By the way, why are we still using pipes? It seems that there was a > > discussion about switching it to sockets so it is more portable. > > Pipes might be more portable than sockets. Some of us use very simple > shell scripts with the lyxpipe. A switch to sockets would require at > least perl for the scripts.
No. You just need a "send-to-lyx" command (written e.g. in perl), and then you can still use shell scripts.
