From: Richard Dawe Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP and network programming Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 20:17:07 +0100 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Message-ID: <391712B3.CF1EFD25@bigfoot.com> References: <3912C734 DOT 715EE0A1 AT olemiss DOT edu> <200005062119 DOT RAA07121 AT indy DOT delorie DOT com> <8f5cn7$g2a$2 AT bob DOT news DOT rcn DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-4.adderall.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news6.svr.pol.co.uk 957820555 10429 62.136.76.4 (8 May 2000 21:15:55 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2000 21:15:55 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr Lines: 45 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. Chris Lee wrote: > Maybe because like most things in FAQS the information contained within > them don't tend to be current? The discussion concering Watt32 is a > perfect example of this. Networking Programing is not a static subject > and for you to sit there and tell people to look in some FAQ that really > doesn't answer the questions people have is quite frankly laughable. I have to confess that I'm a bit puzzled by this. The list of networking libraries in the FAQ is pretty complete, as far as I can see. Also, the number of networking libraries for DJGPP has remained pretty static for the past year or so. Having just looked at section 22.4, which lists the networking libraries, I can see that the description of Watt-32 might need a little adjustment. Eli, I think you might need to mention that it's a DOS TCP/IP stack. Perhaps it's just me, but I don't automatically assume that DJGPP libraries work on plain ol' DOS. Hmm, perhaps that because most of mine don't. ;) > Untill the arrival of WATT32 there quite frankly wasn't a useable TCP/IP > stack for DJGPP. Do you mean for DOS? Or under Windows? libsocket works pretty well with Winsock 1.x under Windows. The latest version, 0.7.4 beta 3, doesn't work quite so well, mainly because I don't quite have the equipment to test it with Winsock 2. > I can't figure out why you would want to discourage people from talking > about using DJGPP for network programing now that there is now a usable > TCP/IP library/stack for it.... I think that was exasperation, rather than discouragement, to be honest. Here we have this nice big helpful FAQ, but many people don't seem to read it. [ BTW one of my projects for libsocket is to integrate Watt-32 into libsocket. I got some way with this, but gave up due to lack of time. ] Bye, -- Richard Dawe richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/