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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">> So has anyone
done anything with using Erlang to monitor DDE?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Not me :-) It might be
cool, even if I thought DDE was dead and buried ;-)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">I think a good way to
handle this is to write a port program that will act as the DDE-enabled
application and let it just dump the requests to the Erlang side for processing.
But I feel it's going to be quite tricky to map the DDE protocol to the
asynchronous Erlang style...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">regards,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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