Remote doit Execution from the shell Level

Overview

The rdoit goody consists of a server (on the smalltalk side), which awaits requests on a socket, and a C-program (called "rdoit"), which connects to this, and sends a smalltalk expression to be evaluated.
This allows for smalltalk actions to be started from the shell level (i.e. via shell scripts, other programs, tcl/perl and other scripts.

With rdoit, you can:

setup a smalltalk application server
which serves incoming requests for applications (possibly on remote displays).
This could even be configured without a local display.
integrate smalltalk apps with existing applications
(especially, if used with "ST/X views in alien windows").
open smalltalk apps from the desktop
trigger smalltalk operations on remote hosts
trigger smalltalk operations via make- or shell-files
use smalltalk for bignumber arithmetic in other apps
use smalltalk as your favourite editor (see goodies/rdoit/edit.sh)

Documentation

See the README and source code in "goodies/rdoit"; and -
Use the source - Luke.

Examples

Start the rdoit server first (this can now be done via the Launcher's communications-settings-dialog).
Then, open a shell window and enter the shell command:

    rdoit "Transcript showCR:'hello there.'"

or:

    rdoit "FileBrowser open"

or:

    rdoit "SomeApplication open"

to open one of your applications.

or:

    rdoit -p "1000 factorial"

(-p means: 'print result')

Licensing

This addOn package is NOT to be considered part of the base ST/X system. It is provided physically with the ST/X delivery, but only for your convenience.

Legally, it is a freeware or public domain goody, as specified in the goodies copyright notice (see the goodies source).

No Warranty

This goody is provided AS-IS without any warranty whatsoever.

Origin/Authors

Found in the smalltalk archives.
Authors:

Bill Voss (Original version)
Claus Gittinger (Additional functionality, security and result backpassing)

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