An Overview of the ToolTalk Service

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The ToolTalk service supports several messaging styles. A sender can address a ToolTalk message to a particular process, to any interested process, to an object, or to an object type. Message senders are not concerned with the locations of processes and objects in any network; the ToolTalk service finds receiving processes and objects.

This manual describes the following components of the ToolTalk application programming interface (API):

• Enumerated Types
• Functions

It also describes the following:

• ToolTalk-enhanced operating system shell commands
• Error Messages
• Standard ToolTalk Messaging Sets