Hello. I've just realised I forgot to send this to the libsocket list - I'm sorry! I hope that most of you saw my post in comp.os.msdos.djgpp anyhow. ... ...
Richard Dawe
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Mar 18, 1999 8:01 pm
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Hello. Some people have e-mailed me complaining that they cannot compile libsocket 0.7.4 beta 2 using make, because it cannot find the Makefile. The reason for...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Mar 20, 1999 9:04 pm
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Hello. Alain Magloire is attempting to port GNU inetutils, a set of networking clients and servers, to DJGPP. Previously this was attempted by Philippe ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Mar 21, 1999 9:49 pm
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... < stage > Libsocket is - setting the stage: - error checkings - DJGPP init stuff - calling WSock or Coda routines via an assembly entry point. <...
Alain Magloire
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Mar 23, 1999 6:59 am
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... The easiest way would be to pass the file/socket descriptors via some form of IPC and to recupare it. If it can be done it will require a minimum set of...
Alain Magloire
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Mar 23, 1999 7:18 am
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Hello. libsocket currently looks in the following places for its main configuration file (lsck.cfg): 1. the directory pointed to by the environment variable...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Mar 23, 1999 4:26 pm
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Hello. ... <snip> ... A possible problem with this IPC and DOS networking is that the mailslot API may not be available. A LAN Manager client would have to be...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Mar 24, 1999 12:58 am
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Hello. ... <snipped socket structure & function tables> I have toyed with this example before. Until recently libsocket has only had one interface, WSOCK.VXD,...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Mar 24, 1999 12:46 am
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Hello. Previously I had considered using mailslots (unidirectional Interprocess Communication (IPC)) to communicate between a libsocket DOS program and a ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Mar 25, 1999 4:28 pm
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... 8-) A little, you're actually getting closer to the MicroKernel(Hurd) arch. Where facilities are provided by a set of deamon, the service or I/O managers. ...
Alain Magloire
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Mar 26, 1999 3:22 pm
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... My point is if you choose to go this way, better do it now before there is too much code. The way that libsocket is written now to implement this should be...
Alain Magloire
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Mar 26, 1999 3:38 pm
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Hello. ... This could be automated by placing it in the "StartUp" group. Time for a nice install program? ;) ... Win9x and NT are like chalk and cheese, i.e....
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 6, 1999 9:00 pm
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Hello. ... Indeed! As soon as I finish the Unix domain socket support, I'll update libsocket using something similar to your suggestions. That way others can...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 6, 1999 7:13 pm
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Hello. I've attached a newsgroup posting about using long filenames (LFN) under NT, as mentioned in an earlier mail. Bye, -- ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 6, 1999 10:13 pm
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Hello. I've just discovered that the top-level Makefiles in version 0.7.4 beta 2 will fail if GNU textutils are not installed. This is because they use 'cat' ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 7, 1999 11:20 pm
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Bonjour Christopher Thanks for forwarding the mail. I would recommand people on the xfreedos list to follow libsocket mailing list. Libsocket has the basis...
Alain Magloire
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Apr 9, 1999 3:33 pm
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Hello. I've just zipped up my libsocket source tree as of late on 1999-04-09. This is an early pre-release of libsocket 0.7.4 beta 3 for Alain Magloire (hello)...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 9, 1999 10:54 pm
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Hello. For those who are interested, I thought I would explain how I've coded the Unix domain sockets. This will hopefully help when browsing the sources in ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 9, 1999 11:28 pm
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Hello. ... I would like to know more about xfreedos & follow its mailing list. Where is its home page & mailing list web page? I tried to join at ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 10, 1999 12:02 am
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Bonjour Richard ... Thanks ! I'll get to it a bit later this week. I was on the road the last two weeks so some catching up to do. You should have feedback...
Alain Magloire
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Apr 10, 1999 10:22 pm
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Bonjour ... This was an odyssey to me, so I hope that Richard will Cc you the indications Let me know if you still not on the list, and I'll try to dig out the...
Alain Magloire
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Apr 10, 1999 11:40 pm
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Bonjour ... I'm not at my computer so the first comment is base on your description. ... Agreed, most overhead can be drop .i.e overflow, etc .. I think we can...
Alain Magloire
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Apr 11, 1999 4:53 am
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Hello. I've just discovered that mailslots are datagrams while testing one of my other programs. So I guess there is a reason for needing sequence numbers...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 12, 1999 1:28 am
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Hello. I've just found bugs in: - wsock_recvfrom() in src/wsock/w_recv.c - csock_recvfrom() in src/csock/c_recv.c The bugs are as follows: - wsock_recvfrom()...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 11, 1999 8:30 pm
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'ello! ... You were mostly right. I'm glad my explanation was clear in some ways ;) ... The client can choose an address if it wants using bind(). If it does...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 11, 1999 8:27 pm
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Bonjour ... Richard Dawe is the maintainer of a network library that provides BSD-style socket, libsocket. He is actively working on it and doing a good job....
Alain Magloire
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Apr 13, 1999 12:03 am
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Bonjour ... Agreed. ... Ok. ... If I remember mailslots where use to provide messaging(popup) loggin, alerts etc on top on LanManger. ... 8-), Well we agree...
Alain Magloire
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Apr 13, 1999 2:17 am
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[ Ok this is the last time I'm Ccing libsocket mailing list since now the subject is less relevent to networking. I've also attach the entire message for...
Alain Magloire
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Apr 13, 1999 5:00 am
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Bonjour M. Marvin G Wise Jr ... Done. I would recommand that every one on the xwindowsfordos too also subscribe on the libsocket list if they intend to help...
Alain Magloire
alainm@xxxx.xxx.xxxxx...
Apr 14, 1999 2:36 am
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Hello. ... Indeed! Using the mailslot code, I've written a message sending program. This code be used in batch files, etc. I have also written a program that ...