[MUD-Dev] Socket programming (was: The impact of the web on muds)

[Richard Woolcock]

Vadim Tkachenko wrote:
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> Richard Woolcock wrote:
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> > Out of interest, can anyone recommend a good book on socket programming?
> > It a skill I'm sadly lacking to any useful degree...all I need to do then
> > is work out how to draw a pixel on the screen, and the rest I can do ;)
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> You don't have to be _really_ good at sockets. I don't know how that
> applies to your programming environment (what is it, can you please
> remind?), but for me (C++, then Java) just the generalization of sockets
> as streams worked pretty good - keeping in mind the reusability as well.

Hmmm well I'd like to get a front end (probably in C++) which would run
under DOS or windows, and the mud part (which I can probably manage just
about) running under Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD.

KaVir.