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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:25:39 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: IPC on Windows
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Hello.

Dieter Demerre wrote:
> The program that I would compile using djgpp is a program that's
> developed on HP (HP-UX).  It's a communication package that implements
> a specific protocol.  Now there are some programs developed for NT
> (probably using VB or VC++) that should be able to use that
> communication channel.  I've been asked to examine the possibilities
> to port my original communication program to NT, hence the question
> about usability.  I am mostly interested in availability of
> bind()
> gethostbyname()
> socket()
> select()

OK, thanks for the clarification. libsocket provides all these calls.
However, there are some bugs in it, that probably render it useless for
your application. I would recommend porting it Windows instead. You should
be able to port it quite easily, since Windows's networking API (Winsock)
is pretty similar to the Unix one you are using (BSD sockets). You could
port your program as a console application.

HTH, bye,

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Richard Dawe
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