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NAME

       XPACode -  Where to Find Example/Test Code

SYNOPSIS

       The XPA source code directory contains two test programs, stest.c, and ctest.c that can serve as examples
       for writing XPA servers and clients, respectively.  They also can be used to test various features of
       XPA.

DESCRIPTION

       To build the XPA test programs, execute:

          make All

       in the XPA source directory to generate the stest and ctest programs.  (NB: this should work on all
       platforms, although we have had problems with unresolved externals on one Sun/Solaris machine, for
       reasons still unknown.)

       The stest program can be executed with no arguments to start an XPA server that contains the access
       points: xpa, xpa1, c_xpa (containing sub-commands cmd1 and cmd2), and i_xpa.  You then can use xpaset and
       xpaget to interact with these access points:

         cat xpa.c | xpaset xpa      # send to xpa
         cat xpa.c | xpaset "xpa*"   # send to xpa and xpa1
         xpaget xpa                  # receive from xpa
         xpaget xpa*                 # receive from xpa and xpa1

       etc. You also can use ctest to do the same thing, or to iterate:

         ctest \-s \-l 100 xpa        # send to xpa 100 times
         ctest \-s \-l 100 "xpa*"     # send to xpa and xpa1 100 times
         ctest \-g \-l 100 xpa        # receive from xpa 100 times
         ctest \-g \-l 100 "xpa*"     # receive from xpa and xpa1 100 times

       More options are available: see the stest.c and ctest.c code itself, which were used extensively to debug
       XPA.

       The file test.tcl in the XPA source directory gives examples for using the XPATclInterface.

SEE ALSO

       See xpa(7) for a list of XPA help pages