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Re: Pete's RDC

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jan 28, 2000
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kat <gertie at ZEBRA.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: Pete's RDC

> > Has anyone other than me been experimenting with Pete Eberlein's RDC.e
> (Remote
> > Dynamic Calls) routines?...

> I have found that several users can connect to the same port. It's rather
> common on irc, with most people connecting to port 6667 or such on the irc
> server. My httpd will serve several files to several places at once on
port
> 80, as will commercial web servers. It does get a little more complicated,
> each connection has a different id, and each variable associated with a
> specific id has to have that id too,,, in Eu i'd guess that all vars would
> then be sequences, and you'd use the id to pick the subseq for that id,,
> like: connection_time[12] for id 12.

Thanks, KAT. I had set up a user list on the server, and wrote client
routines
so they send a "packet" containing the user id, the remote routine_id, and
the arguments. That seems to work fine as long as each client connects,
calls the
remote function, and immediately disconnects, freeing the socket for other
clients.

One thing: in order to update the clients' screens, each client has to send
a
request_for_update periodically - I'm using a 1 second timer to trigger the
request. Is
there a better way to handle this? Can the server "broadcast" to all
clients?

Thanks,
Irv