Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!camex!circus!kent
From: kent@circus.camex.com (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: When the phone rings, who answers?
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Date: 23 Jul 90 19:46:20 GMT
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I have a question that I think should be handled by something in the
Communications Toolbox, but suspect it isn't:

	When the phone rings, who answers?

With 7.0 there is a big push for communications.  Interapplication
communications is great for applications on a given machine or the local
network, but what about communications with remote Macintoshes?

Say I want to write a program which phones up other copies of itself and
trades information, do I have to open the serial driver and just stay parked
forever waiting for a call?

At the risk of upsetting my stomach, I point out that Unix handles this
problem by having a login process which brings up your favorite shell which
can then run uucp, etc.

Is there some way for applications to get the Comm Toolbox to somehow
route incoming calls?  I don't want to be a serial port hog.

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"If 2 + 3 is always going to be 5, why do they keep teaching it to us?"
	- 5-30-90 New York Times quoting a first grader