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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Button Boxes via ReXX
Message-ID: <2043@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 88 19:00:37 GMT
References: <2537@louie.udel.EDU> <10117@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article ... pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) writes:
> This is exactly one of the things I think the IPCMessage protocol would
> be good at.  The idea would be that clients that wanted to act on buttons
> would send messages to the "box" asking it to install such and such a
> button.  The box would send a suitable message to the client when that
> button was hit.

How? I can't see a symmetrical return channel in IPC. The only message a
server can send back to a client is the reply message. I need this facility
for Browser. How do I do this in such a way that I get the IPC protection
for the client port?
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