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- From: nick.waanders@med.umich.edu (Nick Waanders)
- Subject: Background Apps and IP Numbers
- Message-ID: <nick.waanders-101192015611@no-name-nib.med.umich.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 02:11:21 EST
- Organization: University of Michigan
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- I finally did it!!! With the click of a single button, I can make a telnet
- connection from local talk to ethernet to the engineering workstations,
- call up a data file, create an image, send the image back to hypercard via
- ftp (from the sun to the mac), and display it using the picture command.
- This means I have all the pieces for an important (at least in my lab) 3d
- imaging application. However, to make the stack useful on other machines
- and to less inclined users, I need two things:
-
- (1) The image file transfer to the mac requires that an ftp server be
- running on the mac. What I need is to have my stack check to see if the ftp
- application is running. Is there an XFCN to provide a list of applications
- running, including applications in the background? I tried one that came
- in a set of XFCNS/XCMDS called Apple Support Tools, but it was old and did
- not work correclty. Any suggestions?.
-
- (2) To make the ftp connection from the sun to the mac, I need to know the
- IP number for the mac. Our network is set up to have the server assign IP
- numbers at startup and I can find my number by opening up MacTCP. However,
- it would be much better, if there were an XFCN which would return this
- number without user intervention. Any XFCN's for getting the IP number?
-
- Thanks for any help!
-
- Nick Waanders
- Orthopaedic Research Labs
- University of Michigan
-