Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!f.word.cs.cmu.edu!eht From: eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: communication between programs with Speaker and Listener Keywords: speaker listener ipc port kernel preview Message-ID: <5893@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 17 Aug 89 19:55:06 GMT References: <2220@hub.UUCP> <4594@portia.Stanford.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 13 In article <4594@portia.Stanford.EDU> duggie@Jessica.UUCP (Doug Felt) writes: >I don't think you can message the Workspace on other machines. To talk >to an app on another machine, it has to be running and registered. This >is probably for security. > You can Speak to Workspace on another host, but its name is Workspace$x, where x is some large number. So you need to find out that number somehow, but after that you are home free. ...eric -- Eric H. Thayer School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon (412) 268-7679 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213