All, This is my first posting to this forum. I am attempting to develop an AutoIt script which can communicate with other applications via named pipes. I want to be able to create a server script which will create and be able to read and write to the pipe. I was able to write to a pipe, from autoIt, by opening a file with a pipe name such as $file = FileOpen("\\server-name\pipe\pipe-name", 2). However, I want to be able to create a pipe server and to have more control over the reading and wri