Simulate socket with files or stdin/stdout

[Cameron Laird]

In article <donn-94CD08.17112131032004 at nntp4.u.washington.edu>,
Donn Cave  <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>In article <c4fenn$o9h$1 at newshispeed.ch>,
> "Jean-Pierre Bergamin" <james at ractive.ch> wrote:
>
>> We are forced to use a quite old simulation software that's based on
>> Modula-2. The idea is now to let this software "talk" to the outside world
>> over a TCP/IP network.
>> 
>> Since the program has no possibility to use sockets or other mechanisms to
>> send data over the network we have the idea to let python do the network
>> part and let the simu software communicate with the python script in some
>> other way:
>> 
>> One idea is to use stdout and stdin (but I'm not even sure if stdout/in are
>> available in the simulation software).
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		[Donn shows how easy
		POSIX networking is]
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I wonder how close the effect will be to recreation of inetd
<URL: http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?inetd >.
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