On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:09:01 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>What other protocol is there that will work across all platforms? Every
>other form of direct process control is platform specific. The only things
>you can count on are the basics on the OS level.
First, does it need to be cross-platform? Would one run an email client
and editor on different machines?
Second, if you've got an email client, you've got TCP/IP, so you could
use sockets for carrying the messages. Additionally, at least Windows
and *nix have some kind of named pipe (AKA FIFO) and I expect most
other OS's have something comparable, so a small wrapper to hide the OS
API details would be all that's needed to create a suitable
cross-platform IPC mechanism.
The real question is the scope of the communication between a
persistent editor server and a suite of editor clients. I think one
just needs new, open, and close signals to the edit server and a save
signal to the client.
Ken
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