Festival Request Broker
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	 Author: David Bakhash <cadet@bu.edu>
	Updated: Saturday, 10th July 1999

Festival broker is a common lisp program which accepts requests from
clients and passes them off to festival. It maintains a number of
festival server processes and distributes the requests between them.

So, suppose Festival (--server) is running on host "foo.bar.edu" and
port 1314.  You want the the requests to come into "localhost" on port 
2314, and you want 15 threads handling connections, and talking to
separate forked festival servers.  Then you do this (on localhost):

(start-request-broker :remote-host "foo.bar.edu"
                      :handler-count 15)


(let ((s (socket:make-socket :remote-host "broker.abc.edu"
                             :remote-port 2314)))
  (unwind-protect
       (progn
         (prin1 '(tagger "What is your name?") s)
         (terpri s)
         (force-output s)
         (read s))
   ;; protected:
   (close s)))