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- Documentation for Sticky - Simple PC <> PC message sending application
-
- Last changed 22 May 94
-
- Introduction
- ------------
-
- Simple VB3 WINSOCK app to allow a very simple inter-PC communication
- using a metaphor of those millions of bits of sticky yellow paper.
- You can send a message to any PC with Sticky "listen" running.
-
-
- Installation and Use
- --------------------
-
- The release directory contains:
-
- - sticky.txt - this documentation
- - sticky.zip - Windows 3.1 files in pkzip format
-
-
- You must have successfully installed a "winsock" TCP/IP stack before
- Sticky can be run.
-
- 1 Copy sticky.zip to your PC and unzip it into an arbitrary
- directory.
-
- 2 Some Visual Basic V3 executables/libraries must be copied to the
- windows system directory:
-
- - msgblast.vbx
- - threed.vbx
- - vbrun300.dll
-
-
- 3 If you are installing sticky for the first time, the sticky.ini file
- should be copied to the windows directory. Otherwise, dont copy
- this file, as it will overwrite your existing configuration.
-
-
- 4 The Sticky executable (sticky.exe) should be
- defined to the program manager (no working directory
- is required).
-
- On starting for the first time, define your local friendly name
- using the Configure Menu and add a few definitions for other
- users of Sticky which you can send stickies to.
-
-
- A definition consists of:
-
- - a friendly name, which appears later in the open
- connection list box
- - the machine name (as known to DNS or whatever else your
- winsock program uses to resolve names)
- - the Sticky TCP/IP port number which you will
- attempt to connect to on the other machine (defaults
- to "6711")
-
- Press "ADD" to add a new definition to the list of other host
- definitions.
-
- If you want to change an existing definition, click it and then
- click "MODIFY" (or double click the definition) - the definition
- will be removed from the top list and be made available for
- editing - dont forget to press "ADD" to reinsert it in the list
- of other host definitions.
-
- To make the changes permanent, you must press the big "OK"
- button on the bottom of the configuration form.
-
-
- Using it from UNIX
- ------------------
-
- Try sending a message from a UNIX session by telnetting to the PC at port
- (default) 6711 - then type in, for example:
- 0005Harry0007Go home!<enter>
-
-
- Availability
- -------------
-
- Written by Kent Fitch, ITSB, CSIRO Australia kent.fitch@its.csiro.au
- Copyright CSIRO 1994, all rights reserved (must not be stolen or resold).
- Executables and doco in the public domain, source code available for
- a donation to CSIRO. Use at your own risk.
-
-
- CSIRO is the largest publicly funded scientific research organization in the
- world. It operates a large variety of research programs at sites across
- Australia.
-
- The home ftp site for Sticky is commsun.its.csiro.au, in anon ftp
- directory csiro/win3/sticky
-
-
-
- History
- -------
-
- Versions:
-
- 10Dec93 Beta 0.10
- ??Jan94 Beta 0.21 - add BEEP on message arrival
- 03Apr94 Beta 0.30 - removed direct WINSOCK calls in favour of Brian
- Syme's VBWSK v0.3
- - combined stickyt and stickyl into one module
- - add "REPLY" button
- - slightly improved error messages
- - improved config screen
- 06Apr94 Beta 0.32 - allow sorting of sticky destinations
- - allow multiple selection of sticky destinations
- - fix bug which caused an incoming sticky to be
- cleared from the screen by keystrokes
- - fix listening bug
- 10Apr94 Beta 0.34 - removed extra reading socket introduced in 0.32
- which sometimes causes GPF in VBWSK - the listening
- socket now does the reading, ack and then reverts
- to listening, rather than pass off incoming conn
- to a new reading socket
- 15May94 Beta 0.40 - rewrite using all VB WINSOCK interface, running only
- non-blocking calls. Sticky nolonger uses VBWSK.
- 20mAY94 Beta 0.42 - fix overflow bug when connecting by IP num (not addr)
- to hosts whose last IP num component > 128
- 22May94 Beta 0.44 - fix bug with multiple sender selection from list box
-
- Acknowledgements
- ----------------
-
- Steve Green, CSIRO, for thinking this would be a (good) idea.
-
- Mark Eldridge, CSIRO, for lots of good ideas & encouragement.
-
- Microsoft VISUAL BASIC developers
-
- WINSOCK specification designers
-
- Peter Tattam, for TRUMPET WINSOCK.
-
- Little Feat, for Dixie Chicken.
-
-
- Bugs/Limitations
- ----------------
-
-
- 1. Only 50 other Sticky hosts can be configured.
-
-