Hello.

aether13 wrote:
> I was thinking of writing a small mail reader (for learning purposes only -
> very very basic) and is it worth using libsocket (I'm using djgpp as my c++
> compiler) or are there any better alternatives?

You may want to look at Cygwin or Mingw32. These both produce Windows
executables. I would use Cygwin, as your program will be more portable, if you
write it with Cygwin. Cygwin is similar to DJGPP in some ways - it's a suite
of ports of Unixy tools to Windows.

You could also try writing it in Perl. I wrote a mail server in Perl once and
that was a good for learning about mail protocols. I guess it depends whether
you want to learn C++ or mail protocols.

> The reason why I'm asking this is that libsocket is apparently no longer
> being developed.

I haven't done any work on it for some time.

Good luck and have fun! Regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]