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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>
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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
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