On Monday 19 August 2002 12:43 pm, Ruurd Reitsma wrote: > "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > > And I really think that we should ditch pipes as well and move on to > > > local sockets. > > > > What about OS/2 and Windows? Do they have local sockets? > > No local sockets on Windows... Actually, lyxserver has never worked on > windows since there's no mkfifo in cygwin.
André's pipestream class that he posted this morning uses sockets. The good news is that this class is a cut-down version of socket++ http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lavender/courses/socket++/ and socket++ most definitely /does/ support Windows, using Winsock. Now I understand how an external program can communicate with LyX using pipes; it just has to open the pipes and start talking to LyX. I don't understand how it could do the same if we used sockets. Wouldn't LyX have to start up the external program? Sort of defeats the purpose if I understand things correctly. As you can see, this is all new stuff to me, so I'd be grateful if some guru could give me a brief overview of how things would work. > AFAIK no one has even mailed me or Claus with questions concerning the use > of lyxserver. The windows users are probably not that demanding. > (inherantly....;-) ) Wait till one of them finds pybliographer. Angus
