Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!peter
From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IPC  Whatever you do, do this
Message-ID: <803@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 00:53:25 GMT
References: <8803141857.AA26571@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx
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In article ... dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
> 	Make the format general enough so that an independant program can
> 	relay packets to remote machines without having to understand every
> 	packet type in existance.

This is a good point... how can you pass information to a remote machine?
Well, to begin with a number of the elements in packets don't make sense
on a remote machine. How do you deal with:

	Message Ports
	File Locks
	Windows
	RastPorts
	File Handles

and so on? On the other hand, there are a lot of messages that DO make sense...
for example:

	Bitmaps
	IFF data
	Text
	Object descriptions

and so on. Note that all of these reduce to IFF or planned extensions to IFF.

I think that for this sort of data the best way to transfer it is still via
AmigaDOS devices and clipboards. Perhaps a better interface library for
clips would solve this problem (another brick in the wall, eh Peter?).

How would we go about setting things up so you could "save" an IFF file from
Deluxe Paint into "Butcher:"?
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