From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Missing headers/libraries - what next
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 20:11:29 +0100
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Hello.

Martin Steuer wrote:
[snip]
> I'm currently using libsocket 0.80 under W98 and it works nicely.
> The only problem is if you are using dialup with dynamicly changing
> IP you have to manually set it's configuration everytime you want to
> use it. But I wrote a simple (not optimal) program which can do this
> automatically.
> 
> As this just comes up I have a question to Richard:
> I'm doing this by using winipcfg's "/batch" parameter and than reads
> from the output file. Maybe the program could be helpful? It surely
> needs to be done a bit more robust. But you seem to have discontinued
> the work on libsocket.

I did think about doing it that way too, but I didn't. I can't remember why.
Probably lack of time.

I'm not working on libsocket anymore. If someone else wants to maintain it,
please let me know.

What I could do is link to your program/script/whatever from the libsocket
download page. If you'd like me to do that, please let me know.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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