From: pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: netbd.h, sockets.h, in.h and types.h don't work
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 17:18:27 GMT
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
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>I don't like the idea of a package that frobs the standard libraries.
>I think it is better to simply make networking to libc.a, if a stable
>and mature networking library is available.  But someone should do the
>hard work of figuring out the problems and submitting patches to
>include that.

I can see the sense in that.  More maintenance and support headaches
than even separate libraries is a likely result, as I thought about it
some more.

Oh, well.  It was just an alternative I thought should be offered for
the sake of reasoned discussion.

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