Challenge: Server applet for Program Linking over AppleTalk!
Challenge: Server applet for Program Linking over AppleTalk!
- Subject: Challenge: Server applet for Program Linking over AppleTalk!
- From: Harald E Brandt <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 12:57:08 +0100
This is a challenge for the real gurus:
Assumption:
An OS X (10.2.1) machine needs to talk to an app on an OS 8.1 computer.
So it needs a "trampoline" in the form of a classic script app to do
the program linking over AppleTalk to the remote computer, since OSX
can't program link over AppleTalk, and OS 8.1 can't program link over
IP.
A copy of the target app on the remote computer may exist on the OSX
computer so as to be able to get its dictionary.
Task:
Create a classic applet that can take these parameters:
(1) path to the app on the remote 68k computer runnning 8.1.
(2) the commands to execute (in some suitable form).
Create the means to "package" the needed commands from within the OSX
script so they can be handed as a parameter to the classic applet.
tell the remote computer the commands and return the result to the OSX script.
Note:
In principle, the classic applet could of course contain all the
commands that are needed (hard coded). But to be general, the applet
should be able to serve different purposes so, so it could speak to
an arbitrary app on the remote computer sending arbitrary commands.
--heb
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