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In article <1d2fdvy.1hvrc5wsadth8N@rm-dynf1-159.rmplc.co.uk>,
btgsch@rmplc.co.uk (ric) wrote:

> Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar>
> wrote:
> 
> > Could you tell me what program linking is?  I've been
> > trying to find out, and I'm currently clueless.
> > 
> I think it is when you allow a program on your machine to be controlled
> by reomte apple events.

Correct answer, as far as it goes.

Program linking lets one program tell another program what to do.
The use of it you're probably most familiar with is when you make
AppleScript tell a program to do something.  It's possible for
programs to tell each-other what to do without using something
as clunky as AppleScript: they communicate using Apple Events.

Now, if two Macs are connected to each-other over a network
a program on one Mac can tell a program on the /other/ Mac what
to do -- if and only if you have a password and remote program
linking enabled.  This is useful for database engines and using
one Mac to run a slide-show on another, etc..  It's easy and fun
to set up an AppleScript demo of this working and it scares the
heck out of people who don't know what's going on.  Which is nice.

Now, if only Disk First Aid was scriptable, I could get all my
user's Macs to check their hard disks at once.

Simon.
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