Hello. I've been investigating the problem that Jason Winnebeck found with accept() and the wsock interface. The accept() is working, but there appears to be...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 11, 1999 7:46 pm
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... I know Allegro uses that parameter with GCC and I never knew what it did. it is listed as an optimization flag, however. Gillius...
Gillius
gillius@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 11, 1999 10:49 pm
372
Hello. After a successful couple of hours bug huntin', I have produced the first patch for the 1999-11-07 snapshot. As usual, you can get it here: ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 12, 1999 10:15 pm
373
Hello. I've just updated a few of my Windows networking docs. Namely: - WSOCK.VXD Pseudo-Documentation ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 24, 1999 11:32 am
374
Hello. It's been a while since I reported my progress. Here's a brief overview of what I managed to do during the Christmas vacation: - Most of the info docs...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@...
Feb 16, 2000 9:39 pm
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Well I got MSVC6 Enterprise a while back and I have been making applications using winsock natively now. Right now I'm porting my BSD sockets program to...
Gillius
gillius@...
Feb 17, 2000 12:17 am
376
Hello. ... You might want to avoid using the MFC Socket classes. I've heard they suck and that you're better off using Winsock - plus Winsock is closer to the ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@...
Feb 17, 2000 8:35 pm
377
... Well yes I noticed Winsock being based off Berkley, is REALLY based off Berkley and most of the same code works the same, except that you have to specify...
Gillius
gillius@...
Feb 18, 2000 9:20 pm
378
Hello. ... After thinking for a bit, I decided to split the code into two branches: a) 0.7.4 will be libsocket with all the patches, info docs, etc. b) 0.7.5...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@...
Feb 19, 2000 11:32 am
379
Hello. Pardon me for doing this, but: I seem to be having trouble with this list plus the others I "own" on http://www.onelist.com/ . I've sent e-mails to all...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@...
Feb 24, 2000 7:09 pm
380
Hello. I've made some updates to the web pages: http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/lsck/ - I've added a ports page. This is split into two parts:...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Feb 27, 2000 12:00 pm
381
Hello. I estimate that libsocket 0.7.4 beta 4 will be out within the next couple of weeks/month. libsocket is a BSD sockets library for DJGPP, which uses ...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Mar 11, 2000 4:15 pm
382
Hello. It has come to my attention that libsocket 0.7.4 beta 3 + patch for gcc 2.95.2 will not compile with the latest binutils (2.9.5.1 beta). The current...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Apr 9, 2000 11:01 am
383
Hello. I've just uploaded a patch for libsocket 0.7.4 beta 3 that fixes the problems encountered when using binutils 2.9.5.1 beta. There were several problems...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Apr 10, 2000 9:28 pm
384
Hello. It's been a while! In recent months progress on libsocket has been slow, due to my waning interest in the project. However, I've recently had some ...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Apr 26, 2000 11:12 pm
385
If you get libsocket working in a modern Windows environment, I would highly suggest seeing about putting that code into libnet, which is a multi-OS library...
Gillius
gillius@...
Apr 26, 2000 11:23 pm
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Hello. ... IIRC libnet is not a BSD sockets library. I do not have time to add Winsock 2 support to libnet. I have documented the SOCK.VXD interfaces and I...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Apr 27, 2000 5:10 pm
387
Libnet is simply an abstracted networking interface. It supports connectionless unreliable sockets (analogous to UDP), and reliable connection sockets...
Gillius
gillius@...
Apr 27, 2000 10:10 pm
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Hello. ... [snip] Thanks for the explanation there. ... Oh, I hope you have better luck with your new project - it sounds like it's progressing better. ... I...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Apr 28, 2000 6:50 pm
389
Hello. I'd like to announce the 4th beta of libsocket 0.7.4, a BSD-style socket library for DJGPP. This beta release fixes some more bugs in the Winsock 2...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Jun 4, 2000 9:55 pm
390
Hello. ... Thanks for the bug report. I'll fix that soon. BTW djgpp-workers isn't really the right place to discuss this - libsocket isn't actually part of...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Jun 6, 2000 6:29 pm
391
Hello. I've just updated the libsocket web site, after the release of libsocket 0.7.4 beta 4. I corrected the FAQ heavily. The libsocket 0.7.4 beta 4 ...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Jun 12, 2000 10:04 pm
392
Hello. I've just put a guide to debugging libsocket on the development page. It's pretty brief, but lists a few salient details. It's here: ...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Aug 5, 2000 4:28 pm
393
Hi, I get a beginner question on libsocket: suppose that I define a socket (non-blocking, if this matters). I use listen() and accept() on it for incoming...
Bauce
bauce@...
Aug 17, 2000 12:23 pm
394
Hello. ... There should be no difference in limit between blocking and non-blocking sockets. ... This will depend on the version of Winsock that you have,...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Aug 17, 2000 9:47 pm
395
Hi Richard, And thanks for your quick answer. To answer your question: I'm trying to develop a server (for the fun of it) for a network based basic game. It...
Bauce
bauce@...
Aug 18, 2000 7:15 am
396
Oups! I just realized that the 'backlog' parameter is for pending connections... My question was actually: Is there a limit for the number of incoming ...
Bauce
bauce@...
Aug 18, 2000 12:20 pm
397
Hello. ... Well, the maximum number of connections that can be accepted is limited to the number of sockets that can be created, less one, since you need one ...
Richard Dawe
rich@...
Aug 18, 2000 10:56 pm
398
I'm searching somebody that can help us to do a socket connection, between a small PC-DOS (kila System - www.kila.com) and a sever application in windows NT. ...
eurosoft@...
Aug 21, 2000 5:21 pm
399
As I understand it, there's a DOS port of the Waterloo TCP library that uses a DOS packet driver. I think it came with lynx 2.8.4 (or some version number...