[comp.misc] data interchange between applications

ath@helios.prosys.se (Anders Thulin) (08/02/89)

In a few environments there are recommended ways of exchanging data
between various applications.  I am thinking of something similar to
the Macintosh clipboard.

Does anyone know if there have been any attempts of creating something
similar for Unix or other 'open' environments? I'd appreciate
if you could give be pointers to it.

Thanks,
-- 
Anders Thulin, Programsystem AB, Teknikringen 2A, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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cdb@hpclcdb.HP.COM (Carl Burch) (08/14/89)

You might check my paper in the May SIGPLAN Notices "A Language-Based Design
for Portable Data Files" for some of the relevant issues, especially with
respect to multiple-machine implementations of data sharing on a basis other
than remote procedure calls/message passing.  Sorry for the plug, but it
might explain why there aren't many UNIX implementations with such a facility.

						- Carl Burch
						  HP Data and Languages Division