On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
How cross platform is this?
Likely portable to other UNIXes, but it should work first :-)
I am not a windows programmer (only work on UNIX), so I do not know if there are sockets available on Windows.
Same with me, happily using debian Linux, and I didn't spend a second thinking about Redmond.
And for a Macintosh port (MacOS 9, anyway), GUSI would be needed (there is Macintosh port of GUSI to layer sockets on top of the streams interface that OpenTransport uses). What about use of poll/select for many different connections, etc?
Don't know, it's my first try ever on sockets/select :-) Saw poll first in your mail, found the man page. TeX itself works sequentially, so it anyway reads one stream after the other. And it's the master querying things, not the other way around. But one can have more than 1 socket open. Greetings Hartmut