Wiak is a very efficient, special-purpose, usually non-interactive, extremely lightweight IPC shell that is used for building client/server "wiakapps". A variety of demonstration wiakapps are available as part of the current WIAK suite. The name WIAK stands for the "WIAK Interface für Application Kontrolle". As an inter-process communications utility, its name reflects its ability to create and control diverse wiakapps whose component parts may be written in a variety of programming languages and with an assortment of GUI toolkits. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: The --length option logic has been altered to provide the wiak user with greater control over the characters used to terminate the --send option data (e.g., newline, tab, and '