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From: podenski@bcsaic.boeing.com (Patrick Podenski)
Subject: Re: VisualWorks 2.0 and Sockets
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Organization: Boeing Computer Services
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 16:59:29 GMT
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In article <9501080916.AA02621@mail.unigate1.unisys.com>,
Klaus D. Witzel <Klaus.Witzel@Active.CH> wrote:
>This is a repost of a question for which I've never seen a reply...
>
>Can anybody tell me what a TCPclient in PPS must do to see whether a remote
>connection has been closed by its corresponding TCPserver, please.
>I've seen a similiar thread here with the same question, but no clear answer.
>             I need  an advice how to accomplish that.
>

For a good article on sockets usage in VisualWorks, see the October 1994
issue of "The Smalltalk Report", article is titled "Object Transfer
Between Smalltalk VMs" by White, Deugo, and Ulvr. This is for Unix
though so I don't know if it answers your question.

Pat Podenski

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Thanks,

Patrick Podenski             AI Systems
