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From: Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada program needs to ping another machine.
Date: 17 Jan 2002 09:48:10 GMT
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Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote:
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> sockets for instance? I'm developing on Linux and I don't have much clue
> about Windows programming so I would like to make this as portable as
> possible (that is, just recompiling in windows would be nice).

> Eventually it would be nice to evolve the program into a talk program (a
> program where one write simultaneously on a split screen) as the wintalk
> program is rather unstable and I would hope Ada could increase security.

Such a tool would be a first choice in an Ada contest.

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