From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Ending development of libsocket
Organization:	Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/
Message-ID:	<tgnnat8fqput6bvi1beurqq5f00ddq4vog@4ax.com>
References:	<3A745502 DOT 497CA8DF AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> <95ngpf$bk9$1 AT pippin DOT nask DOT waw DOT pl> <9791-Tue06Feb2001104746+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> <95shqp$ac$1 AT pippin DOT nask DOT waw DOT pl> <3A830BE8 DOT E9B6D936 AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
X-Newsreader:	Forte Agent 1.7/32.534
MIME-Version:	1.0
Lines:	30
X-Trace:	/ba9QcA8zbLU37qEfb/eBhvpkeF83aUUolDZEJ5WQQYQaRXfK8Zett0e3yLzzwUJ9rCsVOmhEtEq!VYNXfuIEHToAQ5gqIwgi4VW/dyxu9BTKGRDVJhDJBPpBFY9yW2s0OCwAy8/3qj8jCPEhfBnDWji9!8urx
X-Complaints-To:	abuse AT gte DOT net
X-Abuse-Info:	Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-Info:	Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
NNTP-Posting-Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:34:43 GMT
Distribution:	world
Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:34:43 GMT
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 21:13:12 +0000, Richard Dawe
<rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

>Yes, exactly. AFAIK Windows ME implements its networking drivers as DLLs
>rather VxDs. I suspect that libsocket will not work it.
>
>Damian Yerrick, did you test libsocket with Windows ME? I sent you test
>programs a while back, but got no response. Did you receive my test
>programs?

I didn't get them; I didn't have networking set up on the box yet.
Could you please resend them to d_yerzigrick AT hotzigmail DOT com
(take off every zig)?

>IPv6 is not available for Windows '9x. Microsoft is unlikely to do IPv6

Because it presumably wants users to upgrade from 9x to NT-based
systems when the world switches from IPv4 to IPv6.

>> The case with Windows NT is much clearer, once the CygWin team gets its
>> version of Unix sockets to work we can make a simple stub library tthat
>> calls that implementation.
>
>How are they implementing Unix domain sockets?

Cygwin is GPL; download the source.

-- 
Windows CE + Windows ME + Windows NT = CEMENT
  http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/

- Raw text -