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How do I communicate back and forth with command line tools through their stdin and stdout?

"open process" seems right, but the dictionary says it only works on Linux.
"shell" isn't interactive, and mixes stdout and stderr.

The Dictionary entry for "open process" shows icons for Mac, Win, and Linux, and works on all three.

Where did you read that it was for Linux only?

Quoting from memory: on OS X open process can only be used to launch apps, nut Unix processes. Use get shell for that.

Thanks. I see that note now, but missed it originally because Linux and OS X are very different beasts.

What non-application process do you want to interact with? Maybe we can come up with some clever workaround while a request is submitted for this to the RQCC: http://quality.runrev.com/