Re: Calling a program without knowing the parms

[John Ross <jross-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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