Reading from stdin - problems

[K]

I am attempting to read from stdin with messages.  I have attempted this with a file and with a pipe (created by a external that executes a CreateProcess).  When the with messages is present the Revolution stand-alone program "child" using the following code fails the display the messages sent to its stdin.  However, if the 'with messages' portion is left off the command completes without incident.  Any suggestions?

K.



on mouseUp
  
  put "-Reading-" & cr into field edtOutput
  
  local tXml 
  read from stdin at start until numToChar( 3 ) with messages
  put it & cr after field edtOutput
  put "EOL" & cr after field edtOutput
  
end mouseUp

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