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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Ada program needs to ping another machine.
Date: 18 Jan 2002 18:37:06 +0100
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Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> writes:

> One problem I thought of now is that on a multi-user environment I have
> to be able pass the connection to the correct user. The daemonn need to
> be connected to a standard port so that the other machine can connect to
> it I would think. I'm unsure how to do this. I think I should check the
> source code of talk and the talkd daemon. On Windows (or Mac) it is
> easier as then the environment is single user so the program that the
> user run can connect directly to the port.

Well a chat program is quite trivial to do with GLADE. For encryption just use
one of the crypto filter (DES, SHA...). I have a small demo chat program that
I could share if it can help (just plain Ada, no GUI).

Pascal.

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