LinkConnect

• LinkConnect["name"] connects to a MathLink link created by another program.

• LinkConnect by default operates with internet TCP links, with names of the form port@host. Ports are typically specified by numbers.

• LinkConnect can connect to a port on a remote computer system.

• On some computer systems, LinkConnect[ ] will bring up a port browser.

• LinkConnect returns a LinkObject.

• You can use LinkConnect with LinkCreate to set up peer-to-peer communication between two Mathematica processes.

• LinkConnect can be used to connect to a link created by calling LinkCreate in another Mathematica process.

• LinkConnect can be used to connect to an external program that has created a MathLink link by calling the appropriate MathLink library functions.

• External programs built from MathLink templates using mcc and mprep can typically create MathLink links whenever they are given -linkcreate command-line arguments.

• The option LinkProtocol specifies the underlying data transport protocol that LinkConnect should use.

• LinkConnect internally calls a function analogous to the MLOpenArgv() function in the MathLink library.

• Even though no program may yet be connected to the other end of the MathLink link, the function LinkConnect will return immediately and will not block.

• See Section 2.13.6.

• See also: LinkCreate, LinkLaunch, LinkClose.

• New in Version 3.