From: phepworth AT s-vision DOT com (Paul Hepworth)
Subject: RE: Pipe with TCL/TK
8 Apr 1998 10:26:47 -0700
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	>>the goal is to send messages to a non-gui app in a way that
	>>is portable between unix and windoze.  My though was named pipes.
My
	>>fallback was memory-mapped files.  What would you suggest?

> Have you considered using sockets?  Socket programming is much the
> same on Unix and Windows.
> 
The problem with sockets is that I have to have tcp/ip running.  That's not
out of the question, but it's not my preference.  I'll have to consider the
tradeoffs.


Paul

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