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From: drharvey@chinet.chi.il.us (Douglas Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: connecting OS/2 across Token Ring
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.190319.23887@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 26 Jul 90 19:03:19 GMT
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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Hello,

I've got several applications in mind that would work great if I could
connect two OS/2 workstations across our Token Ring LAN.

We are running OS/2 EE v1.2 on IBM PS/2 70's with 120MB and 10MB+ RAM.
Also, our LAN software is IBM LAN Server v1.2.

What I want to do:

Be able to connect any two workstations together so they can "talk",
whatever that might mean (up to the application).

What I've tried:

Experimented with named pipes, but it doesn't look like I can connect
(from a requester) to a named pipe that resides on another requester.
The named pipe has to be on a server.

I think APPC would do the job, but APPC imposed quite a bit of overhead,
both in terms of running it, and coding the application.

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Any suggestions on what else to try?   I'm open to any and all suggestions
and I can summarize any responses I get to this group.

On another topic, how are most of you accessing the Usenet?  I'm planning
on porting the news/UUCP/rn type software to OS/2 and run the whole thing
under OS/2.  Has anyone done or started such an effort?

Also, I've already written a CRON program for OS/2 that work quite well,
if anyone is interested.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Doug Harvey
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