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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: need internet datagram help
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 96 21:00:44 GMT
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- In article <Dn8Mq4.5xq@world.std.com>
- robinso2@world.std.com "wallace robinson" writes:
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- > am writing a client application, which (unfortunately) is supposed to call
- >a PC VB server program , using internet datagrams. My code is Hp risc unix C.
- >Does anyone have tips about where I can learn how unreliable datagrams are,
- >etc?. I need to figure out how to optimize my timeouts, and number of tries,
- >but it is difficult to do so because I don't kow things like: are datagrams
- > queued?
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- IP datagrams have little or nothing to do with the C language. Try a newsgroup
- such as comp.unix.programmer for socket programming in general under Unix
- or comp.protocols.tcp-ip for discussion of the protocols themselves.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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