Re: [WinMac] Virtual PC and dynamic data exchange?

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:44:58 -0400

At 9:33 AM +0000 9/10/98, jeff thorstad wrote:
>>>I'm wondering if anyone on the list has experience using dde or ODBC on a
>>>Virtual PC environment on the Mac.
>>>
>> If you are thinking about trying to communicate BETWEEN the MacOS
>>and the Virtual PC - you're out of luck. There is no "bridge" between the
>>two, sorry.
>
>If you give both computers (Mac and VPC) their own IP number, you should
>be able to communicate as if they were different computers. You can't
>communicate internally, but externally through your network should work.
>
        There is no DDE on the Mac, so it wouldn't work.

        If you are using an IP-based protocol like CORBA or XML-RPC, then
you could even connect on the same machine assuming your MacOS and VPC
partitions had different IP addresses (mine do).

Leonard
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