One of the first network programs we had to write in school was a program
that read/wrote to a socket. It's trivial to just do it in any language as
a wrapper around j library. Was wondering there was something in there
already that works just by passing some command line to jconsole. Probably
not, I'll write it.


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:55 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greg Borota wrote:
> > In q/k language you can start the interpreter like this:
> > $ q -p 5001
>
> Think Unix and combine jconsole with a tool that knows how
> to interconnect stdin/stdout with TCP/IP.
>
> For example, use "netcat":
>
> $ nc -l -p 5001 -c jconsole
>
> To connect interactively to the interpreter, you can use netcat ("nc"),
> too.
>
> socket(1) is an older, netcat-like tool (I actually prefer this).
>
> For an interactive client, telnet(1) will do, too.  You'll have to
> adopt for the line endings, though.  This can be done either at the
> nc/socket server side or by "toggle outbinary" at the telnet client.
>
>
> For auto-running a J as a service, just use inetd(8):
>
> On miles.marshlabs.gaertner.de (OLD FreeBSD 4.7, dual-stacked IPv4 &
> IPv6):
>
> neitzel 107 > grep -w ^j /etc/services
> j               5001/tcp   #j language.
>
> neitzel 108 > grep -w ^j /etc/inetd.conf
> j       stream  tcp     nowait  nobody  /usr/local/bin/jconsole jconsole
> j       stream  tcp6    nowait  nobody  /usr/local/bin/jconsole jconsole
>
>
> On another host:
>
> $ telnet miles.marshlabs.gaertner.de 5001
> Trying 2a00:1030:1004:1000::166...
> Connected to miles.marshlabs.gaertner.de.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>    i. 3 2 4
> i. 3 2 4
>  0  1  2  3
>  4  5  6  7
>
>  8  9 10 11
> 12 13 14 15
>
> 16 17 18 19
> 20 21 22 23
>
>    exit 0
> exit 0
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> $
>
> Note that different releases of J handle I/O differently.  This
> refers to if your input is echoed back (as above, J Rel. 4),
> when your output is flushed, or how line-ends are treated.
> (And don't get me started about the J startup scripts....)
>
> miles.marshlabs.gaertner.de is not running 24/7, but feel free to
> probe it with a ping and, if it answered, connect to port 5001.
> I'll disable the service again in May.
>
>                                                         Martin
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