Open files in existing app instance

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

Hello,

I'd like to be able to open files in an already running
instance of my app -- like gimp-remote or mozilla -remote
does.  Could someone point me to some documentation or a
implementation how to do it Right?

I've looked at gimp-remote, but it says ``Dont even think
about doing this in your own newly created application.'',
so I don't even think about it ;-)

I need it to
- work on both X and Win32, perhpas using different
  mechanisms if necessary
- on X, it should be probably machine-bound instead of
  DISPLAY-bound, as the app won't open files from some
  random remote host (it's bad enough this confuses DnD)

TIA,

Yeti


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