From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Winsock advice...
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 18:29:56 GMT
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On 2 Jan 98 05:14:08 GMT, frenchc AT cadvision DOT com (Calvin French) wrote:

>Can I Winsock to myself? I will try this tonight, see what I can get cooking. 

Yes indeed -- use INADDR_LOOPBACK (0x7F000001), which is 127.0.0.1
decoded.  You'll need to htonl it first, of course, so the value you
pass to the socket library is 0x0100007f.

>I'm using the little DJGPP Winsock package, don't worry this message isn't 
>misposted.

Which one?

>But if anybody has had experience with this maybe could you get 
>back to me? I'll try and check the group but my newsfeed sometimes nukes 
>things before I get to them, cc email to frenchc AT cadvision DOT com would be 
>greatly appreciated.

Done.

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