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From: akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
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Subject: Inter-Process Communication
Summary: How to?
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Date: 4 Aug 90 06:38:10 GMT
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Hi,

As part of my research I have to write a bunch of applications that
can talk to each other. They *have* to be seperate applications (I
can't write one huge application that has a bunch of modules that can
share data. In various OS courses, this has been described as Inter
process communication. 

I haven't found *any* reference to this in any of the Apple/Apple
Press things I've read, nor in (say) the Think C/Think Pascal
documentation. The only reference I got was in the Tech Notes stack,
where I was essentially told: Wait for System 7.

Has anyone done anything which involved one application talking to
another? Could I set up an init that applications could communicate
with, and leave messages for each other?

IPC (or IAC, inter application communication, as Apple calls it), is
available in lots of other interfaces like Sun Views, X Windows, and
even in Microsoft Windows....

any help would be much appreciated.

kartik




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Anant Kartik Mithal					akm@cs.uoregon.edu
Department of Computer Science				akm@oregon.BITNET
University of Oregon