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anyone experienced with sun???

Software has been written to control a board, but on a sun platform. I would
like to know how difficult it is in a sun to use labview to talk to another
program. I am somewhat familiar with a Sun, but just a beginner, I am
however pretty experienced with LabVIEW 5.11 for Windows. Is this possible?
Thanks!

Charley
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charles adams wrote:

> Software has been written to control a board, but on a sun platform. I would
> like to know how difficult it is in a sun to use labview to talk to another
> program. I am somewhat familiar with a Sun, but just a beginner, I am
> however pretty experienced with LabVIEW 5.11 for Windows. Is this possible?
> Thanks!
>
> Charley

There are several ways to go about this.
Just FYI there is no ActiveX, DDE or OLE avaliable for SUN.
What you do have is :

Named Pipes - These are simply files, basically the app and LV would read/
write the files.
The app must be written to use pipes.
TCP and UDP - app must support
If the app uses the serial port for comm with the board then LV can tap into
the port.

If the app is written with a *.so (shared obje
ct, about the same as a windows
DLL)
then LV can use the *.so usgin the Call Library Function just like you would a
DLL

There are also CINS for sun.

That is about it for this OS, if you have more details I might be able to be of
more assistance.
Sun / Solaris is my preferred platform
Kevin Kent
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