[George Peter Staplin] 2007 Nov, 14 - Netcall is a remote eval package.  It's optimized for speed, and has more capabilities than [comm].  It's used in the [Whim] window manager.

It's BSD/Tcl licensed (the same license as Whim).

The sources are here: http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/implementation/software/netcall/

Eventually netcall may be part of http://code.google.com/p/megapkg/

A simple example for a server:
 set dir [file dirname [info script]]
 source [file join $dir netcall.tcl]
 netcall.init
 netcall.serve 8888
 vwait forever

The clients can do:
 set dir [file dirname [info script]]
 source [file join $dir netcall.tcl]
 netcall.init
 netcall.connect localhost 8888
 puts "SERVER PID is:[netcall pid]"



Now there's also some more power available.  You can wait for variables to change on the server side.
 set changedby [netcall.vwait ::someservervar ::anotherservervar]

By default netcall takes args as a parameter. If you already have a command that is a list you can use:
 set result [netcall.1 $somecommand]

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