Re: Dynamic C to C Data Transfer

Tom said:

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:33:27 +0000 (UTC),
gazelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenny McCormack) wrote:

In article <45845237.1596155@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Roland Pibinger <rpbg123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:11:49 GMT, Tom wrote:
The scenario is: Several networked machines. Each performing stock
analysis on individual or a small group of financial instruments and
then passing buy/sell instructions to an order placing machine.

Is the platform, by any chance, Windows?
If so, try using INI files. Works real well.

Thanks for the tip Kenny.

It's a tip that doesn't do you any good, though, always assuming your
problem isn't that of opening and writing and reading and closing the
files. For that, any old format will work. But the advice is no more than
we'd expect from Mr McCormack.

The proper way to do this is via sockets, but yes, you could hack at it with
files if you wanted, if you wanted something short-term while you were busy
learning sockets.

Someone suggested starting off in the basement ("00000000.tom"), and writing
each new message in the next file up ("00000001.tom"), with the receiver
deleting as it reads. That sounds workable to me, and doesn't involve the
(easy-to-get-wrong) swapping of two filenames.

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