From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: netbd.h, sockets.h, in.h and types.h don't work
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:05:08 +0100
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote:
> > IIRC libnet does not have a BSD socket interface, so that can't be
> > used for porting.
> 
> Even though libnet has its own peculiar API and application protocol
> (built on top of UDP and designed for netgames), it's designed along
> the same lines (and by some of the same fellas) as the Allegro library
> (does the job the same on all supported platforms).

Thanks for the info there. I confess I don't know much about libnet. I
wonder how much work it'd be to add a BSD sockets layer on top?

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
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