Some network (very) basics.

[sp000n]

I fancy myself quite a savvy computer user. This game I'm working on is my first programming adventure however. Can someone explain to me in gentle terms what a socket is? I've done a search and run into lots of SSH-speak that assumes I know what it means as well as similarly assuming hardware mentions of CPU pin configurations.

The context of my program, btw, is network. I'm trying to determine if I need asynchronis sockets, blocking sockets, socket wrenches... or any at all :}

[Richard A. Lowe]

Try this:
http://world.std.com/~jimf/papers/sockets/winsock.html

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I fancy myself quite a savvy computer user. This game I'm working on is my first programming adventure however. Can someone explain to me in gentle
terms what a socket is? I've done a search and run into lots of SSH-speak
that assumes I know what it means as well as similarly assuming hardware
mentions of CPU pin configurations.
The context of my program, btw, is network. I'm trying to determine if I

need asynchronis sockets, blocking sockets, socket wrenches... or any at all
:}

[C# Learner]

"Richard A. Lowe" <ch*****@yumspamyumYahoo.com> wrote:

Try this:
http://world.std.com/~jimf/papers/sockets/winsock.html

sp000n: It might not be easy to understand at first, but stick with it
and ask here if you have *any* questions.

Also note that this article's examples all involve using sockets in C
with low-level WinSock library calls. Using sockets in .NET is *much*
less hassle than what's demonstrated here.

Good luck.

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

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I fancy myself quite a savvy computer user. This game I'm working on is
my first programming adventure however. Can someone explain to me in
gentle terms what a socket is? I've done a search and run into lots of
SSH-speak that assumes I know what it means as well as similarly
assuming hardware mentions of CPU pin configurations.

http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/en/showarticle.php?id=3
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[sp000n]

Thanks to all three of you for the great resources and kind words :o)

Slowly but surely I'm taking over the worl... er, creating my first program.