On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 02:51:47 -0800, Dale Halterman <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>The following is posted to the HP3000-L on behalf of friend of mine who
>asks questions well beyond my own technical expertise.
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>I am developing a client-server based application that requires a lot of
>data transfer between the two program components. On the server side,
>there is a program which accepts the data buffer from the client and
>hands it over to some other process running on the same machine.  In
>order to facilitate interprocess communication of the data, we are
>currently using short-mapped file mechanism.
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>Unfortunately, with that mechanism, MPE limits the amount of data
>transfer to be no greater than 4MB. Since we need to transfer more data
>than that, we need to find alternative approach for interprocess
>communication.

You could try message files, a TCP sockets send/listen approach, or
re-architect your transfer to use multiple chunks of < 4 MB.