InfoMagic Internet Tools 1995 April/Internet Tools.iso/dos_win/winsock/maillist/94-04.Z/94-04/text0149.txt

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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Leigh Williams) says:
>
>Has anybody made Mosaic work while also using VLMs instead of NETX on
>Netware?  I had a call today from a site in Connecticut and the guy's having a
>problem with this.  I have Mosaic and the Trumpet winsock working fine here,
>but we're Netware 3.11 and NETX.EXE.  I gave him the Trumpet newsreader to
>test so we can see if the problem is between winsock and the VLMs, or between
>Mosaic and the VLM.  He can make Mosaic work fine if he doesn't load the
>Novell stuff.  Is this a known problem?
>
>Thanks,
>Leigh Williams
>Stephen F. Austin State University
>Nacogdoches, TX 75962     409-568-1421
>
Got it to work here. However, after the update to vlm_1.1 my machine will
hang when exiting windows.
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From: Vikas Garg <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Curious behaviour from winsock
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> I wonder how many have asked this question before, or alternatively, how many
> will tell me how obvious my problem is?
>
> When using non blocking sockets with lingering enabled (l_onoff=1,
> l_linger!=0), I call closesocket and get WSAEWOULDBLOCK back. Now great, I
> expected that, but where is my notification message when it does close?? Or
> actually, when will it close? - because according to my network monitor app
> the socket is still connected.
>
> I have confirmed that it is not my code - although could easily be my
> reasoning, by using WSATest (a wonderful help).
>
> Basically I have switched to abrubt disconnectes unless someone can point out
> the err of my ways.
>
> I have tried this with Distinct TCP/IP and DEC Pathworks 4.1 and Pathworks 5.0
> beta.
>
> Thanks for any help. I dont now how long I have gone without seeing that this
> was happening.
>
>
>

You are trying to issue a blocking call on a non blocking socket and that
is why it is failing with the error code WSAEWOULDBLOCK. Unlike the connect()
call this implies that the socket will not be closed (page 23 of WINSOCK
specs).

You have two ways of closing the socket cleanly in this scenario

i) Make the socket blocking and then close it, this will ensure that the
call does not return untill the socket is properly closed.

ii) Turn linger off, leave the socket as non blocking and close it. In
this case the call will return immediately and the socket will be close
sometimes in the future.

Hope this helps

Vikas

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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Tim Munro) writes:
>    I'm having trouble keeping WinTrump's news files on my C: drive and NOT
on >Netware. I know there is a switch at invocation to do this, something like
>-ignore_nw. Could someone please tell me the correct switch name? Thanks.

-disable_nw

Works for me.

Park and Lock, Not Responsible...
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Subject: MS TCP/IP Beta Expiration? [was Re: TCP/IP-32 Beta Expired]

[e-mail] (John C. Lund) writes:

>When I started windows today, 4-6-94, I was informed that my newly installed
>TCP/IP Beta is expired.  According to the Docs. It should expire June 14?
>I checked my system clock and it is correct.  Any ideas?

>John Lund

I just installed this program today (impressed so far!).  Does the
'expiration' lock you completely out of the TCP/IP functionality?  Simply a
courtesy message/reminder?  What are the plans for the final release?  I hope
this will be treated in the same way as the wfwtcp that was placed on
ftp.microsoft.com a few months back.  Can anyone from Microsoft provide some
guidance on this question?

Thanks,

Dave Davis
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