On Fri, 31 Mar 2023, Gregory Heytings wrote:

>>>  https://languagetool.org/download/LanguageTool-stable.zip
>>
>>  It appears to be designed as a full-blown, multi-connection server.  Even
>>  if it is restricted to a local address, if it were a multi-user machine
>>  I'd be concerned about whether other users might gain access to the text
>>  I've sent to the server for processing.

If it leaked text between requests, that would be a bug.  But yes, it would be tidier if it was possible to communicate with the server via, say, a socket.

> The zip file above contains the three versions of the program: GUI, 
> client-server, and command-line.

The command-line tool takes too long to start to be of practical use to us.

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Peter Oliver