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Thread: What is the best way to transfer (ascii & binary) data between two processes?

  1. Apr 8th, 2001, 03:05 PM #1
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    I need to transfer string data - both ascii and binary - between to processes. i'm thinking about using the windows message system (PostMessage ....), but unsure whether this could handle binary data and what the maximum string length is.

    are there any other possibilities like using something activex related?

    Thanks for your advice!
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  2. Apr 8th, 2001, 03:14 PM #2
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    Pipes are probably your best method. Never used them though, so you'd have to look up some examples on them. The raw documentation is on MSDN:

    Platform SDK->Base Services->Interprocess Communication->Pipes
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  3. Apr 13th, 2001, 06:39 AM #3
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    Thanks for the hint! Was very useful...

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  4. Apr 13th, 2001, 06:49 AM #4
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    Or you could use winsock and connect to your own system, or you could use files on the hdd, or you could use DDE ...
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