Re: MCL and communications...

[gersh@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (John R. Gersh)]

In article <9312091035.AA22471@laforia.ibp.fr> Eric JACOPIN writes:
>What would be the simplest way to make MCL programs (each running on a separate
>mac connected with appletalk) communicate LISP structures ?

Use appleevents. Look at the appleevent-toolkit.lisp and
eval-server.lisp files in the examples folder of the MCL distribution.
There's a bit of learning (and Inside Mac reading) involved if you haven't used appleevents before, but once that hurdle is passed setting up the
communication is relatively simple.


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