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- Global Chat Sample for Windows Sockets
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- SUMMARY
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- The GLOBCHAT sample allows two clients to carry on a conversation using a
- server as the intermediary. By using the Name Resolution and Registration
- functions, the clients need not even have the same transport protocols
- loaded. The server acts as a gateway between the two clients, forwarding
- messages over the appropriate Windows Sockets interface.
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- MORE INFORMATION
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- To run Global Chat:
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- - Load the server side, GLOBCHAT.EXE, on a Windows NT server. This machine
- should run every protocol that a potential client might run.
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- - On a client machine, run GLOBCL.EXE. Choose Connect from the Options
- menu to get to the dialog box for selecting the protocol of your choice
- and give yourself a name to be known by.
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- - Once you enter the protocol and your name, the Global Chat Client finds
- the server and gives you a list of other users who you can chat with.
- Pick one, wait for them to accept your offer of a chat, and start
- typing.
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- The Global Chat Server displays the protocols it is using, the number of
- client machines connected using each protocol, a list of all the client
- names currently connected, and the status of each.
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- Note: Some of the supported protocols simply use the first Global Chat
- Server that they find. This means that if more than one Global Chat Server
- is running on your network, you may not connect to the right one.
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