Erlang echo server with eLite?

[Piotr Daruk]

Thanx!!
Sorry for not being specific!!! Yet, you have assumed correctly! Now I
understand the Erlang messaging mechanism. I will try that as soon as
possible.

Best regards.
Piotr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luke Gorrie" <luke@REDACTED>
To: "Piotr Daruk" <piotr.daruk@REDACTED>
Cc: "Fredrik Linder" <fredrik.linder@REDACTED>;
<erlang-questions@REDACTED>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: Erlang echo server with eLite?


> "Piotr Daruk" <piotr.daruk@REDACTED> writes:
>
> > Hi Fredrik!
> >
> >     First of all thanx for such quick answer! Please note that I don't
> > want to use erlang environment to run my programmes. I want to compile
> > them and move to another Linux machine. That is why I'm using "aLike
> > 2.0" compiler.  Both programmes can be compiled without any
> > problem. Than I start ./echo and ./client.
>
> I'm assuming the client and server run as separate programs (separate
> unix processes).
>
> > The client can send only Integers. But when the client tries to send
> > a message that is: echosrv ! {ClientPid, N} error occurs:
> > {badarg,[{client,main,1}]}.
>
> The expression "echosrv ! {ClientPid, N}" will try to send a message
> to the registered process 'echosrv' in the current node (i.e. unix
> process). If your echosrv is actually registered in another process,
> then it will crash (with 'badarg') because the current node has no
> echosrv process.
>
> To send the message to a remote node, you should do:
>   "{echosrv, othernodename@REDACTED} ! {ClientPid, N}"
>
> Which will use distribution (over a TCP socket) to send the message
> to the other process.
>
> I don't know if distribution is easy to use with eLite - Joe?
>
> P.S., the latest version of eLite (aka Stand Alone Erlang) at
> http://www.sics.se/~joe/sae.html is 3.1.
>
> Cheers,
> Luke
>