Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!peter
From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Time is of the essence on IPC.
Message-ID: <853@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 01:51:28 GMT
References: <1571@louie.udel.EDU> <353@brambo.UUCP> <1661@louie.udel.EDU>
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In article <1661@louie.udel.EDU>, rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
> The amiga
> is to the point where we should not continue arguing about fundamentals,
> which a good working IPC is.

Gee, I brought this up back when AREXX came out: pointing out that the
existing mechanisms for IPC (clipboards, devices, pipes, and plain message
ports) were quite adequate. For the sort of thing you can use REXX for, I
still can't see that they need work.

>    What do you recommend? I want to build some fun toys that 
> use an existing IPC; I'm not interested in creating Yet Another IPC 
> Standard. And there are a fair number of people in the same boat. 

So how about: (1) A library for clipboards that makes them as easy to
use as files, or (2) A CLIP: device, that allows you to read and write
clipboards from current programs.
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