From: "Richard S. Woods" <"rwoods AT interaccess DOT com"@interaccess.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.programmer,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.programming,comp.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c++,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Networking, Client/Server
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:55:59 -0500
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Lord Shaman wrote:
> 
> I'm interested in writing network games, especially Client/Server
> games. (Like Quake.) I was wondering if it is even remotely feasable to
> write a C++ network library that supports DOS, Windows 95, IPX, TCP-IP,
> SERIAL and LOCAL networking. It would have to be fully OOP, with all the
> fun extras like operators, etc.. I'd like to know if anyone has ever
> tried this and wether they've succeeded or not. Technical info on
> networking and client/server systems would also be appreceated. Reply by
> email please. Thanx.
> 
> --
>                                       ... the Lord Shaman
> 
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>             "My aim is life is to become immortal, or die trying."
>           http://www.nlc.net.au/~shaman  or  mailto:shaman AT nlc DOT net DOT au
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I found some network programming information in a zip file called
IPXSTART.ZIP. it can be found at
ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/novell/ipxstart.zip among many other
places.

I tried writing an OOP interface class for this set of files and made
some very good progress, but am having a lot of trouble with the machine
locking up when I try to close the socket. IPX is usually useless after
running one of my programs without closing the socket. I think there is
a problem with my packet structure.

I hope this is helpful.

If you want a copy of my IPXClass E-mail me at rswoods AT interaccess DOT com