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RE: Al Getz Display Server

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Aug 01, 2003
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gertie at visionsix.com wrote:

(snip a little)
> > I was hoping to possibly have it execute strings too, which
> >contain formulae and stuff like that.
> 
> Execute strings?!? Oh the horrors! 
> /me watches half the list faint.
> 
Gee, sorry to scare you like that Kat 
Maybe i meant something else....
What i meant was, to be able to execute something like:
    y=x*x+2*x+3
and have it return the value of y. That's all really.

> > Since multiple clients are allowed, it might be an easy way to
> > pass data between them also, and share data without needing
> > to worry about synchronization and things like that.
> > Interestingly enough, any clients that connect are automatically
> > synchronized to the point where it is impossible for one client to
> > overwrite data while another client is reading.  This makes some
> > tasks a whole lot easier 
> 
> Oh my goddess, you have recreated win3.1!! Congrats, Al! Will it
> run on 
> dos,,,,,,, oh, nm, it won't, will it?
> 
Not really sure what you mean there Kat, about the win3.1 part ?
Right now the basic communication is accomplished using
the win api's SendMessage() function, which might be callable
from Windows dos too.

> Kat
> 

Take care for now,
Al