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- From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Socket Emulation
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 14:20:12 GMT
- Organization: Just me.
- Lines: 24
- Message-ID: <1ic5esINNmpt@uwm.edu>
- References: <1992Dec31.002457.13138@acme.gen.nz>
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- Summary: You mean Coherent doesn't *have* sockets?!?
-
- kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
- >A month or so ago I read somewhere (possibly on the Coherent TCPIP mailing
- >list, which has been very quiet if not defunct) that someone had a socket
- >emulation library available for Coherent 4. I'm trying to port a mud (CI Mud,
- >a smallish disk-based server that is probably feasible under Coherent,
- >networking aside) and I need to be able to replace all the socket code to get
- >it running. I'm assuming that the emulation code will use some other form of
- >IPC, to allow processes to talk to each other on the same machine as if they
- >were using sockets.
-
- You mean Coherent doesn't already *have* sockets?!? NONE AT ALL?!!?
-
- Yikes! I had *thought* that Coherent was a relatively decent OS until now.
- I can understand not having IP ("net") sockets, but you're gonna have a bad
- time porting anything like a MUD if it won't even do UNIX (filesystem) ones.
-
- Jeeez... TinyMUSH, PennMUSH, and DikuMUD compile out-of-the-box under Linux.
- Even LP-MUD compiles without too much twiddling. ...and Linux is FREE.
-
- How much did you pay for COH? Is it *refundable*?
-
- Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
- Occupation: Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and Linux fan
- (Linux is a FREE UNIX-clone that beats the pants off the latest Coherent!)
-