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Re: ToolTalk questions

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From: Robert Allen
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:58
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In article <lj4oitINN2oo@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> rja@newbirth.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Allen) writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.172134.3602@shearson.com> fgreco@shearson.com (Frank Greco) writes:
>>
>    It's best used for message passing, although
>    there is nothing to keep you from casting an array to a
>    structure, loading the structure, and then sending it via
>    tt_message_barg_add().  Do I advise doing something like
>    this?  Probably not.

    Note that I base this on personal taste.  It should *function*
    just fine.

>    Let's say you want to open a bunch of sockets between system to
>    do bulk data transfer, but you don't want to have to use
>    a static file to store the names of all the potential data
>    transfer participants.  So, put a ToolTalk interface on all
>    the potential participants, and use that interface to pass
>    around connection management information.

    Of course, you'd still need to somehow advertise ToolTalk session
    IDs...
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From: rja@newbirth.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Allen)
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Subject: Re: ToolTalk questions
Date: 18 Dec 1992 23:58:51 GMT
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