What would you think about moving the named pipe from samterm into sam? It doesn't make much sense if you think of the named pipe as an alternative to the plumber. If you're using it for scripting a long-running sam process then maybe it's useful? It should also allow samterm to connect (or reconnect) to an already running sam process, possibly on a remote machine, wihich would be great for long running sessions, and/or unstable/intermittent connections. It could even simplify some of the logic and further decouple sam from samterm etc. I still need to look in to that a bit more.