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Re: messaging mail in 3.0 with distributed objects -- you can't!

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From: Frank Thomas
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:31
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In article <1992Aug18.143442.14079@pencom.com> alex@laos (Alex D. Nghiem)  
writes:
> For those that are interested, the following code was posted by Andy  
Stone  
> several weeks earlier:
[stuff deleted]
>     mail = NXPortFromName("MailSendDemo", ""); // ACK for now it works
[stuff deleted]
> 			andrew

I think it should be 
mail = NXPortFromName("MailSendDemo", [NXApp hostName]);

because if you run a program with `redirected` WindowServer on a different  
NeXT, your program would be started there instead of using your NeXT.
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Message-ID: <1992Aug27.103113.1152@glocke.hotb.sub.org>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!incom!orfeo!hotb.sub.org!glocke!frank
References: <1992Aug18.143442.14079@pencom.com>

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From: frank@glocke.hotb.sub.org (Frank Thomas)
Subject: Re: messaging mail in 3.0 with distributed objects -- you can't!
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:31:13 GMT
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