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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:50:10 -0500
From: Strider Centaur <strider AT scifi-fantasy DOT com>
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To: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: using socket with DJGPP + sending at comands to modem
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    Is this as easy as just calling the sock routines or do you still have to
setup the Winsock Callback?   That's the part I would expect to be harder to
deal with.   I, for the most part, find windows to be a major pain to code
in.  But then again I am biased.  :-)

Ron Burton
( California here I come! )

George Foot wrote:

> On 28 Dec 98 at 11:20, Strider Centaur wrote:
>
> > Perhaps you could access WinSock by using RSXNTDJ.  If so with ALLOT of
> > work( at least compared to doing it in UNIX ) you should be able to
> > create, connect, listen, close, bla bla bla, sockets.   WinSock should
> > work for both 95 and 98, but not DOS.
>
> It's not so hard to do this.  I don't think it took me more
> than about fifteen minutes to get most of the Libnet code
> (written to use UNIX sockets) to work in Winsock.  Now all of
> it works; I had to download the header files from the ibldenv
> archive from Microsoft to get `select' to work, in particular.
> Everything else was fine IIRC.
>
> --
> george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk