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Article #9062Re: Advice about buying apps and IAC
From: Larry Rosenstein
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 01:18
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 01:18
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In article <674046650.1@blkcat.FidoNet> Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo) writes: > > > Well, it's may not be as simple as that. My understanding is that IAC >simply creates a mechanism which *permits* apps to comminicate, but the >actual comm protocols are not defined. In other words, you've got to have >some other protocol *on top of* IAC to accomplish anything. There is a standardized language with which one app can talk to another. It's called Apple events, and there are standard suites of events defined already. Applications that implement these standards should be able to talk to each other, regardless of which company wrote the app. On the other hand, there's nothing to prevent a developer from using the low-level IAC mechanisms to send other kinds of data. I would expect that customer demand would encourage developers to follow the standards. -- Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc. lsr@apple.com (or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!lsr From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Advice about buying apps and IAC Message-ID: <13477@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 14 May 91 01:18:38 GMT References: <674046650.1@blkcat.FidoNet> Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 24