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From: bdc@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk (Brian Cantwell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: newtworking in Eiffel
Message-ID: <216@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk>
Date: 25 Apr 89 14:39:30 GMT
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From article <57210@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, by breissinger-marc@CS.Yale.EDU (Marc Breissinger):
> Has anyone out there ever used Eiffel for networking?
> 
> < paragraph deleted > 
> I thought I might be able to write C routines which accept the individual
> pieces of data in the structure and then call the appropriate
> routines.  I could then wrap an eiffel feature around these routines.
> The problem, however, is that some of the system calls return pointers
> to these structures.  How do I get this data back into Eiffel?
> 
> Any ideas or examples would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> --Marc

I am also interested in solutions to this problem.
Anyone using Eiffel in UK who has a workable solution to linking
multiple Eiffel processes over the network, either via RPC or other
mechanism, please contact me. Also if you have useful class libraries
in Eiffel, for sale or development.
Thanks

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