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connect

Purpose
Connect a Mosel instance.
Synopsis
function connect(mi:Mosel, host:string|text):integer
Arguments
mi 
The instance to connect
host 
A host specification
Return value
0 if successful, a positive value otherwise
Example
Start instance inst1 on a separate process:
r:=connect(ins1,"") 
With default settings, the 2 following statements are equivalent:
r:=connect(ins2,"ariane")
r:=connect(ins3,"xsrv:ariane")
Further information
1. Any Mosel instance has to be connected before it can be used for executing commands.
2. If the host provided is an empty string ( ""), it is replaced by "rcmd:" (instance started on the same machine in a separate process). Otherwise, the string host is searched in the list of defined aliases (see sethostalias) and, if found, it is replaced by the associated text. If the resulting specification does not contain any IO driver reference, a valid specification is generated using the current connection template (see conntmpl): each occurrence of the %h marker in the template is replaced by the value of host.
3. The host argument (or the string resulting from the transformations described above) is expected to be an extended file name using an IO driver the task of which is to start a process running the mosel program in remote mode and create/manage the communication streams between the processes. The mmjobs module provides three drivers supporting this service (see Section I/O drivers): "rcmd:" to start a Mosel instance on a separate process on the same machine, "xsrv:" to start a Mosel instance on a host running the Mosel Remote Launcher (see Section The Mosel Remote Launcher xprmsrv) and "xssh:" to use a secure connection with an xprmsrv server.
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