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From: hsu@boa.gatech.edu (Yung-Kao Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Anyway to run a program directly from smalltalk?
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Date: 21 Feb 90 13:56:46 GMT
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I do not browse thru this group often thus the question I asked
might quite well be discussed before.

I've been working on implementing an environment which requires
an interaction between smalltalk and prolog (on Sun workstation).
The communication between the two is thru the use of socket which
comes with ParcPlace System with a C program acts as an agent.
However, the establishing of the comunication link between the
process and Socket are extremely slow and very often freezes
the system for about 3 minutes just for it. Furthermore, one have
to always remember to run the agent beforehand.

The problem could be greatly reduced if somehow I could build
an object that could run a "prolog" or any other process directly
by sending a message to it. Has anyone here known of such thing?

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