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From: kgk@cs.brown.edu (Keiji Kanazawa)
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Subject: Re: Does HP/Lucid Common Lisp support pipes/sockets?
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Date: 29 Nov 89 15:26:42 GMT
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Adam Kao writes:

   Hello, I am trying to get a Lisp process and a C process to communicate
   with each other.  I would like to use pipes or sockets but I don't know
   if the Lisp I'm using can handle that and I don't know where to look.

As long as the lisp has a foreign function interface for C objects
and libraries, you should be able to use sockets or pipes.  I don't
know about HP's lisp in particular, but it shouldn't take more than a
page of C and a couple of lisp functions to have lisp and C talking
through a socket.  However, that's just I/O we're talking about.  It
may take some effort to make error handling work right and so on.


Keiji Kanazawa
kgk@cs.brown.edu