linuxpimp20

hi i want to make a simple file tranfers program so me and my friend can connect to each other (have had less then steller success with gaim) Im familar with how sockets work in *nix because everything is a file. Im not sure how they work in ms tho. is it very similar so that my knowledge of socket programming may be enough or vastly different that i'll have to go into more depth of programming for windows?

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Beej's Guide to Network Programming
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/g...tro.html#AEN52

Jim Frost's "Windows Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer" is a short introduction to programming Winsock. There is also a complementary Unix version of that tutorial at the same site.

http://www.frostbytes.com/~jimf/pape...s/winsock.html

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linuxpimp20

thanks. i've read the first one from page oen to the end and enjoyed it. i'll take a look at the winsocks one.

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Sounds good... hope it helps.

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mackenga

I think all the useful answers have been given here, maybe bar one: have you considered using a portable high level language? That way, sockets will work in exactly the same way on both platforms. I'm thinking of Tcl/Tk, mainly, here, but you could say the same of Perl, Java and (I think) Python. They way sockets work in these languages is usually built around the BSD Sockets API and very reminiscent of it, if often a little simpler.

You might find you get the job done a lot faster, and it may save you learning the quirks of Windows sockets, which may have been worth learning five years ago but I suspect they'll lose their relevance (surely MS will manage to implement 'proper sockets' on their tinkertoy platform sometime soon?).

DaWei

Try this, under Basic How-To, and maybe this, which is a PDF.

It it's a good idea to use what someone else has done, as just mentioned by McKenga, unless you're out for the learning.

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ashucool83

Hi .. I am also trying to do something smiliar. I have a C++ code running on Win2000 machine trying to access C server code in QNX-OS.
Well, I am able to connect, but I am having trouble sending multiple send().

Client code: (C++ code in Windows 2000 Professional)
char ch[3] = "AB";
char ch2[2] = "w";
send(sd, ch, sizeof(ch), 0);
send(sd, ch2, sizeof(ch2), 0);

Server code: (C code on QNXOS)
char buff[3];
char buff2[2];
int len1,len2;
len1 = recv(ns,&buff,sizeof(buff),0);
len2 = recv(ns,&buff2,sizeof(buff2),0);
printf("Data1: %s\n", &buff);
printf("Data1: %\ns", &buff2);
printf("Len1: %i\n", len1);
printf("Len2: %i\n", len2);

Output on Server:
Data1: AB
Data2: 2AB
Len1: 3
Len2: -1

THANKS

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may want to start a new thread with this particular code.

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