Re: socket, pipe

[tmoran@acm.org]

>documentation for Unix describes, but you'll need to add a call to
>"WSAStartup" before you try any of the other calls or nothing will work.
>When your application shuts down there is a similar call (I think its
>WSAShutdown).
  If you're using Windows you could use Claw-style sockets (either the
version that comes with the $0 Claw, or the version that doesn't need Claw
at all).  It uses a hidden controlled type to automagically do WSAStartup
and WSACleanup.

>One gotcha's that caught me is the operation of "send" and "recv".  Since
>we're using sockets in "blocking" mode I expected the "recv" function to
>wait until all of the characters I asked for showed up.  That is NOT the way
  Claw lets you read/write with Strings, or Ada.Streams style, or by
instantiating a generic with a record (like Sequential_IO), or mixtures.