Poke and request transactions issued to a server object are handled by defining a method on each of the generic functions dde-server-poke and dde-server-request .
dde-server-poke server topic item data &key format &allow-other-keys The generic function dde-server-poke is called in response to a poke transaction. A method specializing on the classes of server and topic should poke the data given by data into the item specified by item .
dde-server-request server topic item &key format &allow-other-keys The generic function dde-server-request is called in response to a request transaction. A method specializing on the classes of server and topic should return the data in item .