tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin) (01/25/91)
I know I've seen this before, but now I need specifics. Currently I use both MSC and TC++ and have no problem with the MSC restriction for FTP programming. However, there is someone here who has written a large application in TC++ and now (after the fact) would like to add the socket access. Question: Is there ANY way you can use TC++ to access the tcp driver and on to the socket. She wants only to send messages from a PC to a SUN. I will be attempting a compile here (I don't forsee any success because of the negative answers I've seen here). E-Mail any replies please to Carl Schelin tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu Thanks.
jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen") (01/26/91)
Is there ANY way you can use TC++ to access the tcp driver
and on to the socket. She wants only to send messages from
a PC to a SUN.
At various times I've heard assertions that the Turbo and MSC libraries
and linkers are intended to be compatible at the .OBJ level, but
experimentation indicates that's only true for very simple programs, or
for very energetic developers with knowlege of the internals. The 2.05
release of our Dev Kit (due Real Soon Now) will contain the source to
the socket libraries, which will make the job much easier.
Meanwhile if your developer is willing to use our INT 61 API (see the
System Call Reference section of the manual), they can be programmed
from whatever the TC equivalent of int86x() is, and correspond pretty
well to the socket functions.
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