Re: Ada Chat Program

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Stephen Z. wrote:

> I am trying to write a simple chat program with Ada. I am using the
> sockets package. I am trying to input a string and parse each
> character and send them each individually. If anyone can help me
> with this, I would greatly appreciate it.

I think the sockets package has a plain Put_Line procedure that you
can use.  In
<http://www.nbi.dk/%7Esparre/temp/diffusion_confusion-20020902.tar.gz>
you can find some code I wrote with a friend using the sockets
package.  I hope it is sufficient to give you an idea of how you can
use the sockets package on a line-by-line basis.  Once you have set up
the connection, there isn't much difference between Ada.Text_IO and
Sockets.

Jacob

PS: I like `talk` style chat programs much more than ICQ style.  To me
    ICQ seems just like my e-mail program, only with the ability to
    see who is awake at the moment, whereas `talk` is proper chatting.
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