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PURPOSE

     FIFOW writes the value parameter to the named pipe

TAE COMMAND LINE FORMAT

     fifow pipename=<thePipeName> value="some value to write"

OPERATION

     FIFOW writes the value parameter to the named pipe

     
RESTRICTIONS

     The named pipe must exist and be writable. This program will block
     until the written value is read.

WRITTEN BY:            W. L. Bunch, Wed Feb 21 2007

COGNIZANT PROGRAMMER:  W. L. Bunch

REVISIONS: 
  Wed Feb 21 2007    Initial version
  Sat Dec 29 2007 wlb switched to USES_ANSI_C AND LIB_CARTO; misc cleanup
  2022-08-10 B. Crocco afids to opensource (untested)
  

PARAMETERS:


PIPENAME

The pipe name (created with system command "mkfifo").

VALUE

The value to write to the pipe. .END

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