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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: What is Net DDE? Is it in NT?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.165919.6780@microsoft.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:59:19 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <wright.95.0@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <wright.95.0@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Wright) writes:
- >Can someone explain Net DDE?
- Network DDE is the name of a utility included in Windows for Workgroups, and
- also will be in the next Win32 SDK update. Since DDE conversation setup in a
- local machine involves a message sent to all local applications so that
- one may choose to respond (DDE_Initialise), its simple for a message
- forwarding utility to respond to that DDE_Initialise, package up the
- request, send it on to other network machines, and act as a proxy for
- all ensuing DDE-related messages between two applications on different
- machines. That is exactly what Network DDE does, enabling applications
- which support DDE but have no idea about network APIs, to exchange their
- data across the network -- Alistair
-