At 8:40 AM +0200 11/13/98, michal starke wrote:
>but most platforms have a mechanism to interact with external processes
>(AE, BMsg, COM, etc.). it would be very powerful to create an abstraction
>regrouping them, very much like (File)Stream abstracts over distinct file
>systems... And squeak would gain so much by being able to talk to others
>productively :-)

For a start it looks like TCP/IP can be used. I don't feel this really
meets the long term needs for abstraction, but it might be a short term
solution.
--dick peskin


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