mfidelma@CC5.BBN.COM ("Miles R. Fidelman") (11/05/88)
Folks, Does anyone have a version of IP for the MAC that can run as a background task rather than as part of an application such as NCSA Telnet? What I have in mind is as follows: I would like to be able to send and recieve IP packets over Appletalk from a program running within Allegro Common Lisp. I believe this will require a background or interrupt process that receives incoming packets and then passes them to the Lisp environment as well as the code for sending packets. Allegro CL has a facility for linking code in MPW object format. Allegro can also receive system events and generate traps. So.....if you any ideas or pieces of the solution, please send me email. I'll post what I find out. Thanks much, Miles Fidelman mfidelman@bbn.com
minshall@kinetics.UUCP (Greg Minshall) (11/08/88)
From article <8811041254.ab08773@Louie.UDEL.EDU>, by mfidelma@CC5.BBN.COM ("Miles R. Fidelman"):
> Folks,
>
> Does anyone have a version of IP for the MAC that can run as a background
> task rather than as part of an application such as NCSA Telnet?
Kinetics (see my signature for my bias here) has a "TCPort" product
which is a toolkit to allow you to write TCP applications for the Mac.
TCP itself (as well as IP) runs as a "driver" on the Mac, so is always
there. One can program it in a "native" way as well as via a Socket interface.
Multiple applications may have TCP connections open at one time, etc.
It requires MPW in order to write applications (if you wish to use the
glue routines we provide). So, maybe this will satisfy your needs...
Greg Minshall Kinetics
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