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From: mrh@camcon.uucp (Mark Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: How to send a variant protocol over a link?
Message-ID: <1364@titan.camcon.uucp>
Date: 29 Mar 88 08:44:54 GMT
References: <8803171831.AA04508@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Organization: Cambridge Consultants Ltd., Cambridge, UK
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From article <8803171831.AA04508@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU>, by U06A@CBEBDA3T.BITNET (Stefan Friedli):
> 
> For a program I currently develop, it would be a nice and elegant
> way to have a variant protocol on a physical link. As this is

I can't try this and feel it sounds too simple, but...

it should be possible to instert a dummy process between the physical link
and your "variant protocal channel". This process would have two paramters,
one a channel supporting your variant protocol and the other a CHAN OF ANY,
"placed at" the physical link. The process's sole function is to relay
information between the variant protocal channel and the link. It's a bodge,
but simple enough not to be too unpleasant. I hope it works!
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