Re: Novice Sockets and MCL

On 25 Mar 2004, at 15:54, Andrew Reifers wrote:

> I need to get a simple socket connection between two processes that run
> independently of one another.  I have found some info on the web but  
> so far
> I have been unable to establish a server socket that allows a client to
> connect using
>     (setf socket (ccl:open-tcp-stream host port) )
> The real problem is that I can't get an established identity of the  
> socket.
> Instead of (ccl::open-tcp-stream host port) returning a stream  
> identity it
> just sucks up all of the processes resources.  This has been true for  
> all
> the examples I have found on the web as well.  Can anyone help? I would
> really appreciate it.
> Cheers, Andrew

The example at the end of the following manual page walks you through  
the setup of both a server and client, talking to each other over  
TCP/IP, in the same lisp image - if that is what you are looking for,  
if not it should give you a head start.

http://www.lispworks.com/reference/lw43/LWRM/html/lwref-30.htm#pgfId 
-888403

HTH,

Sven