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- From: KVC@SUMMER.INNOSOFT.COM (Kevin V. Carosso)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: Info wanted on select routine.
- Message-ID: <01GTDAVMUWWS8WW5MR@SUMMER.INNOSOFT.COM>
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 22:03:47 -0800 (PST)
- Organization: Info-Multinet<==>Vmsnet.Networks.Tcp-Ip.Multinet Gateway
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- > I'm trying to port software written for unix to vms. It uses the "select"
- > routine to wait for either network or keyboard events. While getting the
- > channel number for stdin might be hard, I think I can do it, but my initial
- > tests show that the routine only works for Multinet network channels. Is this
- > true, or should it work for any channel assigned by the program? Thanks.
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- You might try using the select() routine and the rest of the socket routines
- provided with VAX C and UCX. Then use MultiNet's UCX emulation for your
- underlying TCP/IP. We use this approach a lot, though I don't know for certain
- that the DEC select() does the right thing for what you want.
-
- /Kevin Carosso
- Innosoft
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