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ToolTalk questions

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From: Frank Greco
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:21
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I'm in the process of creating my first *real* tooltalk-capable
application and have a few questions that perhaps somebody might
be able to answer.

1.  Is there a *guarantee* that all observers receive my message?

2.  I cannot seem to get a little tooltalk pgm to communicate
over a WAN.  There is no common X session or (obviously) common
process group.  How do I remedy this?

3.  The (sparse) examples that I've seen only send simple ints
among session members.  Does anyone have any examples of sending
a structure?   Both simple (ie, no ptrs in struct) and a complex
(ie, ptrs) would be helpful examples.

4.  My performance tests, informal as they may be, indicate that
tooltalk is fine for high-level communication (ie, open app, iconify
app) but seems to be slow and perhaps unusable for things like 
real-time data feeds.  Can anyone corroborate this?

5.  Can anyone compare (Athena) Zephyr to ToolTalk, or am I comparing
apples and pi-mesons here?

Thanks,

Frank G.
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