From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP with GNAT
Date: 1997/01/08
Date: 1997-01-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997Jan8.064922.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: MPLANET.32d27263geme989681@news.alpha.net
In article <MPLANET.32d27263geme989681@news.alpha.net>, geme@baraboo.com (Gabriel Emerson) writes:
> As a military-grade programming language, it would seem to me that GNAT
> should have cross-platform socket support. Can anyone point me in the
> right direction here? Thanks!
I am sure someone who knows more about it will tell you where to find
some bindings. I wanted to point out that multi-platform TCP/IP
support is not necessarily going to be transparent unless you stick
to a formal specification like Posix. I hear that even some Unix
systems have differences and an alternate API than "sockets". I
know on VMS there are 5 different sources of TCP/IP implementations,
each slightly different.
I use the term "multi-platform" rather than "cross-platform"
because I keep running into discussions of "cross-platform"
where the author means just two platforms. Which two is
most often Macintosh and Microsoft, neatly omitting the
interests of a lot of folk who contribute to c.l.a.
Larry Kilgallen
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1997-01-07 0:00 TCP/IP with GNAT Gabriel Emerson
1997-01-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1997-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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