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From: ruiu@tic.UUCP (Dragos Ruiu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Portable inter process communications.
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 14:46:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 14:46:59 1987
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I hate to open this can of worms....
	Is there a *portable* way to get two processes to communicate, some
method that has a hope of working under SysV, BSD, HP-UX and the plethora of
weird beasties in Unix land ? Are named pipes the answer ? Are files the last
resort ?
 
     Barring that is there a method that will work on all SysV (V.2 V.3 ..)?
     Or is there a method to intercept *all* output to a tty so that a useable 
version of the VMS Phone utility may be written for Unix. Write's using "over"
seems like a barbaric way for unix users to chat - a public-domain, full screen
Phone would be much better.

I'll try to summarize all mail replies.

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