OpenEuphoria

Re:Re: euLibnet and IRC

• Posted by francis.dowling at runbox.com May 26, 2001
• 449 views

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> both euLibnet and euTcp4u won't work because they both use blocked
> sockets and Euphoria doesn't allow threads.  Possibly I just had poor code
> and it is possibly both wrappers could work as well!!!
>=20
> I "think" the only way possibly would be to use the winsock wrappers which
> can be found through the archive.  It will be more difficult to implement=
 as
> you need to use pure winsock instead of using higher level libraries.
....


Does Euphoria really not allow threads? I never realised, just presumed tha=
t it did. I've never actually tried calling the CreateThreadEx or whatever-=
it-happens-to-be-called function in whatever.dll....

Anyway, are you *sure* about this identd server? I've used IRC for 5 years,=
 and on undernet and DALnet which are the only ones I frequent now I can ch=
oose (still) to connect without the ident server; which prepends a squiggle=
y ~ to your ident. I've always understood this to mean no ident server was =
accessed when connecting. Come to think of it too, last time I connected to=
 IRC was through telnet. I don't feel confident programming sockets or thei=
r implementation but I presume TELNET does not have an ident server - and I=
 connected fine. After you connect and read the verification notices are yo=
u remembering to send to the socket the correct USER, NICK and PONG command=
s with their correct parameters?

A wee while back I managed to connect to IRC using some socket library in e=
uphoria. It would just echo to the screen and send to the server exactly wh=
at you typed. Just like telnet, except I couldn't work out how to detect an=
 end of line as the sockets implemented in this library were of the non-asy=
nchronous variety. From memory, I presumed you used the recv() function wit=
h a non-asynchronous (or whatever they're called) socket when you knew exac=
tly how many bytes to read, which in a variable environment like IRC I coul=
dn't get working effecetively.

Anyway,  I'm surprised. I'm *sure* I've managed to connect to IRC before wi=
th Euphoria.

Cheers, get back to me on this I'm interested - I just might have it all wr=
ong anyway