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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Wanted: DDE Specifications
Message-ID: <1990Jul31.143046.21565@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 31 Jul 90 14:30:46 GMT
References: <812@stewart.UUCP>
Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL
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In article <812@stewart.UUCP> bill@stewart.UUCP (Bill Poitras) writes:
>Is Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) for Windows just some sort of transfer 
>protocol.  Can it be implemented over TCP/IP, or other transports?

DDE is a message scheme for communication between windows in the MS Windows
environment.  In order to even use DDE a program must be able to link with
the MS Windows libraries to get the PostMessage/SendMessage calls.  This
being the case, I'm fairly certain it would be impossible to set up DDE
between a MS Window and an XWindow (though I do hate to say anything is
impossible).  However, as an FYI, I know that a company called DaVinci has
created a program that allows DDE messages to go across a network, so that
one window can talk to another window on a different computer.
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Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us