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Hello, I have a strangish question that might be a Perl problem or not, depending on it's solution. :-)

I have a DOS app (running on Win2k) which reads in a text file. However, what I really want is for a Perl program to run "magically/silently" in the background and generate the CSV data to provide to the DOS app. So the DOS app would just think it was reading a text file, but really it was running Perl and capturing the output. (I can't change the DOS app's behaviour, by the way.)

I did wonder if there was a Windows app to give me this functionality, but I can't find anything.

Alternatively, does anyone think I could do something clever by monitoring/intercepting the file access from a continually-running Perl process, or does anyone have any other ideas as to how this strangeness might be accomplished?

Many thanks and excuse me if I'm making no sense at all, Neil.

In reply to Making a perl program look like a regular file on Win32? by SmugX

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