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Re: SPAWN and reading from a socket? [message #7895 is a reply to message #7751] Fri, 17 January 1997 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Registered: May 1995
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In article <5blomp$er@jungle.toppoint.de>, alpha@jungle.toppoint.de (Hendrik
Roepcke) writes:
|>Hello,
|>
|>i want to read data directly from a TCPIP-port to get
|>data into IDL..
|>
|>are there any better possibilities than spawning an
|>c-programm which feeds the data into idl?
|>
|>wasn't there something like named pipes?
|>Or can I read from a /dev/file directly?
|>
|>
|>pro get_data
|>
|>get_lun,unit
|>
|>spawn,'netcat -l -h otherhost -p dataport ',unit=unit
|>
|>
|>readu,unit,data
|>
|>free_lun,unit
|>
|>print, data
|>
|>end
|>
|>
|>any hint needed...

Hendrik,
some time ago I wrote a little program to do that job by
call_external (OS is VMS). If you are interested, let me know.

Michel
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