John Waters wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have two computers linked up together by a simple LAN, is there any way I
> can make them "talk" to each other? What I mean is, if computer A wants to
> tell computer B something, it will issue a command and send through the LAN
> cable to computer B and vice versa. I want to avoid writing the command into
> a file in a commonly shared hard-drive, since the handshaking will be quite
> frequent, this method will be slow and too heavily using the hard-drive.

Unless there was a specific reason not to, I'd say use an established
protocol, such as TCP/IP.  After all, it's well documented and there's
*lots* of stuff out there that speaks TCP/IP.  Also example code using
TCP/IP abounds.

If you could be more specific on what you are trying to do, perhaps
more specific suggestions could be made.  Perhaps even someone has
already done whatever it is that you are trying to do, and would be
willing to share precisely how it was done.
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