Re: Calling a program without knowing the parms

Alexei,

The PC program can tell the socket programs everything it needs to know 
about the program and parms for the program. My problem is what I would do 
with that information.

Thanks
John Ross


At 03:57 PM 7/3/01 -0500, you wrote:

>Yes, parameters to *PGM object are always passed as pointers (so-called OS
>linkage).
>And no, you can't determine what type of parameters *PGM expects.
>You will have to include paameter type in your interface.
>Remote program, which communicates to your server via socket, should know
>for sure what kind of parameters it is sending.
>Why can't it tell you what it should be ?
>
>     Alexei Pytel
>
>"The better is the worst enemy of the good"

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