send to program problem

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Craig,

I think most people use sockets to allow for inter-application communications. I think that the send command relied on Mac OS 9 (and earlier) specific features.

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On 28 apr 2011, at 23:42, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:

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> I still have a dozen OS9 macs running HC, working together all day with "send to program" chitChat.  20 years...
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> From any HC machine, if I say: "send "beep 3" to program "*:hcServer:hypercard", that machine beeps three times.
> If I try this from LC, (OSX 10.4) I get "error -1701", likely some "failed to find file" sort of thing. The HC server machine is connected when I do this,
> though that is unnecessary in the OS9 world, apple events working just fine with only a valid AppleTalk address.
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> I have seen little in either the forums or here about LC talking to LC on a network. Is this uncommon? When I first opened Revolution
> years ago, it was the first thing I sought out, to make sure that at least that was still supported. Is it OSX to OS9? Is it me?
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> Are there better ways to create a clent/server or peer to peer network than this? I will probably never use LC merely as a front end, I will
> always want to roll the whole thing from within.
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> Thanks...
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> 
> Craig Newman