To communicate b/w machines

[thirumalai]

Hi All,

I am trying to create a application that suppose to receive text / string from another program running on a different machine. Could you throw some light on the possibilities of developing it?

I was thinking about serial commnication prograaming to develp this. Are there alternatives as well?

Thanks in Advance!

[bbgst]

There are many. From memory, I recall sockets, which aren't the most user-friendly (or programmer-friendly, I should say), but once you get used to it, are quite powerful (I once made a game on college using sockets, and it was really painless). I've never used it on Windows, though. There's also RMI (or RPC).

Wish I could give you more information, but I'm sure someone on the forum can.

[WinwordExonar]

I just posted these two links for someone else :

'Winsock Programmer’s FAQ'
http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/

and

'Beej's Guide to Network Programming'
http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html

Hope this helps.