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TextPacket

TextPacket[string]
is a MathLink packet containing string, the text output from Mathematica as produced by functions such as Print.

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Launch a subsidiary Mathematica kernel process:

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Read the first packet:

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Write a packet representing the text to enter:

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The result from the evaluation is a TextPacket:

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Close the link:

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