Is Send to Program still working?

[thatkeith]

I've been tinkering with the 'send to program' command, but I'm getting precisely nowhere when I try to do this across a network. I know the odds are that I'm getting something wrong, but I'm starting to wonder if it's possible at all.

In the Dictionary's details for this command it talks about AppleTalk zones, but in the entry for the 'address' property there's a note saying that support for AppleTalk zone addresses on Mac OS systems was removed in version 1.1.
Erm...

Is it possible, without jumping through enormous hoops, to have an application running on one Mac to communicate in some way with something running on another Mac? I'm not concerned about other platforms at this point, I'm just trying a Mac-specific experiment.

Keith

(Edit: I also wondered if it's still current because the URL at the bottom of the 'send to program' entry is stale:
"For more information about Apple events, see Apple Computer's technical documentation, Inside Macintosh: Interapplication Communication, located at <http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/IAC/IAC-2.html>.")

[dunbarx]

Hi.

I used "send to program" forever. I am an old HC user that has also found the new world order disconcerting. The world has moved on, and this is no longer supported. Likely still exists so as not to break old HC stacks, though suddenly having no value might well be considered "breaking".

Anyway, sockets is the name of the game now, for better or worse. Takes some getting used to, but can be configured to act similarly.

Craig Newman

[thatkeith]

Hmm. Thanks! So that entry in the Dictionary should be marked as no longer supported. :-/

Anyone have tips on getting up to speed with sockets?

[dunbarx]

Try:

http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4 ... ng-sockets

http://revolution.byu.edu/internet/IntroToSockets.php

Craig

[thatkeith]

Wow, thanks Craig! I mourn slightly for the loss of the old inter-application communication method, but this does look pretty exciting. Thanks very much for the links, they looks very useful!

Keith