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- Subject: Re: Vmsnetrek: Wollingong vs. Multinet
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.203409.1@acad2.alaska.edu>
- From: asdmf@acad2.alaska.edu
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:34:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.200121.1@acad2.alaska.edu>, asdmf@acad2.alaska.edu writes:
- > In article <1992Nov20.003905.26957@news.arc.nasa.gov>, madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison) writes:
- >> In article <1992Nov19.090752.5844@ais.com>, bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes:
- >>>
- >>>Why don't more people use Matt Madison's NETLIB package? It allows
- >>>you to write code that can be run under UCX, Multinet, CMU-TEK, and
- >>>PSC implementations of TCP-IP (and other vendors could be added
- >>>pretty easily). The transport used can even be defined as a logical
- >>>name at runtime.
- >>
- >> Maybe because I never got around to documenting it? And it's written
- >> in BLISS?
- >>
- >>>It seems to me that this (or something very much like it) is the ideal
- >>>solution, but almost nobody ever does it. I wonder why?
- >>
- >> You don't even have to get as fancy as NETLIB. Just keeping all the
- >> network code in a single module makes a program easier to port. Even
- >> if you're using the "portable" Berkeley socket routines.
- >>
- >> -Matt
- >> --
- >> Matthew Madison | madison@tgv.com | +1 408 427 4366
- >> TGV, Inc. | 603 Mission Street | Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA
- >
- >
- >
- > All people need to do is there is a file called link.com
- >
- > change the libraries in it under where it links it to one executible to your
- > local system's libaries.
- >
- > There is a version already made for i believe Multinet that is available on
- > raven.alaska.edu and ftp.ulowell.edu
- >
- > +=====================+=======================================================+
- > |Don Fanning | ** GOD Gave Rock-n-Roll to You! ** |
- > |Computer Sci. Major | ** Gave Rock-n-Roll to You! ** |
- > |Taco HeLL Phreak! | ** Gave Rock-N-Roll to Everyone! ** |
- > |The AC/DC 'GOD'! | **I'VE GOT THE POWER** |
- > +=====================+=======================================================+
- > | University of Alaska - Anchorage......Sigh, I know, I know................. |
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- Please excuse this message...I was in a stupid sense of mind..
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- |Don Fanning | Why is that we never know when loves begins........ |
- |Computer Sci. Major | .....But we always know...when love ends........... |
- |Thinks Mary Barker | |
- |Is a GODDESS! | **I'VE GOT THE POWER! AMIGA POWER!** |
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- | University of Alaska - Anchorage......Sigh, I know, I know................. |
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