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- Short: Beta AmiTCP mods for Amiga E
- Author: jason@fsel.com (Jason R. Hulance)
- Type: dev/e
-
- AmiTCP modules for Amiga E
- ==========================
-
- This is pretty much a beta release of these modules, since I've had no
- bug reports on the last version (which was some time ago). I'm still
- in the rather poor position of not actually running AmiTCP myself, so
- I am reliant on those who are...
-
- The sources are included but, as ever, they are just for reference.
- In particular, you shouldn't try compiling the sources as some of the
- modules have had to be fiddled with to get unions etc. (and this will
- affect not just the module with the fiddle in it, but all those that
- use it).
-
- The big difference over the last version is that one of the bitfield
- operations has been corrected (Wouter's documentation mislead me, but
- there's no real excuse for me not testing that bit!), and there is now
- some initialisation code. This was present in the net.lib link
- library of the SAS/C version, so I guess it might be pretty important.
- The rest of net.lib has not yet been ported to E (unless someone knows
- different...). I may start working on it but, again, I'm hardly the
- best person to do this, not having AmiTCP running on my Amiga!
-
- To use the initialisation do something like this:
-
- MODULE 'amitcp/init/amitcp_init'
-
- PROC main() HANDLE
- -> AmiTCP: initialise everything
- amitcp_init()
-
- -> Your code
-
- EXCEPT DO
-
- -> Your cleanup code
-
- -> AmiTCP: cleanup everything
- amitcp_cleanup()
- ENDPROC
-
- The initialisation code opens the 'bsdsocket' and 'usergroup'
- libraries, initialises I/O variables and opens a timer. It also sets
- up various other arrays. If you want your can just use the bits you
- need from the 'amitcp/init' directory. It should be fairly
- self-explanatory.
-
- Anyway, the key thing is this: if you use one of the init routines
- (e.g., amitcp_init() for the whole lot), then you must make sure you
- match it with the corresponding cleanup call (amitcp_cleanup() for
- amitcp_init()). I'd advise that you use the exception handling method
- shown above. Also, your program should *NEVER* use E's CleanUp()
- function, as this terminates your program immediately and gives it no
- chance to perform its own cleanup.
-
- Have fun!
-
- Jason (jason@fsel.com)
-