Simple sockets with OSLib

Tony van der Hoff tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk
Wed Feb 13 14:52:32 GMT 2002


On 11 Feb 2002, in message <63e640074b.richard at proton.acorn>,
Richard Walker <runnyhunny at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm writing a C application using OSLib/OSLibSupport and the Toolbox.
> 
> I'm planning on doing a few *simple* things with sockets: gethostbyname and
> ntohl are the only socket functions I'll need (I think/hope!).
> 
> Is there a preferred library and/or way of doing things?  A while ago, I
> tried using Acorn's TCPIPLibs, and they didn't get on with OSLib too well. 
> The stuff in OSLib's socket.h doesn't seem to do what I want.
> 
> Has anyone written their own functions that will do what I want?
> 

It doesn't seem that anyone here has :-(

TBH, I don't think this is the right place to ask. csap or csan are likely to
get you a wider audience.

Sorry.

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