1. WinSock & dll wrappers
>I'm currently trying a wrapper for Euphoria for DOS. It's based on
>packet drivers and the DOSPPPD stack (freeware).
will you be including the DosPPPD stack in the wrapper package?
>I stopped the enhancements of the Winsock wrapper to try to unify
>both them in a single package. (I'm afraid that is not easy, so
>I'll end up with two wrappers, one for DOS and the current
>Winsock).
I think I read somewhere that MS was attempting to mirror Berkeley
sockets in WinSock, so Unix developers can port to Windows with little
difficulty... if that really happened, who knows ;)
It's probably better to keep them in two separate wrappers...
Another question (to all):
How do you go about writing a wrapper to a DLL? Is there a way to find
the functions + parameters so you can use them?
winsock.dll, for example: is there a help file that has functions,
parameters, and return values (along with descriptions)?
Thanx,
----->Buddy
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2. Re: WinSock & dll wrappers
>I think I read somewhere that MS was attempting to mirror Berkeley
>sockets in WinSock, so Unix developers can port to Windows with little
>difficulty... if that really happened, who knows ;)
That's one of the main purposes of WinSock, to maintain the sockets
concept/command structure from BSD to make porting easier, and although they
did that pretty successfully, it's still almost impossible to port UNIX
utilities to Windows (thank GOD for ATM).
3. Re: WinSock & dll wrappers
> will you be including the DosPPPD stack in the wrapper package?
Yes, there is a DOS port written by a colleague. It's freeware.
> I think I read somewhere that MS was attempting to mirror Berkeley
> sockets in WinSock, so Unix developers can port to Windows with little
> difficulty... if that really happened, who knows ;)
Yes, they did it, under the qinsock 1.o spec. But they also added some more
features...
> for example: is there a help file that has functions,
> parameters, and return values (along with descriptions)?
What we've done so far is to get the C header files and extrapolate that
info...
I Think that Windows95/98 QuickView gives some info on the contents of the
.DLL files.
Jesus-
