Subj : Re: Turbo Pascal/C TCPIP Library
To : Charles Blackburn
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Sep 16 2022 08:59 am
Re: Re: Turbo Pascal/C TCPIP Library
By: Charles Blackburn to Digital Man on Fri Sep 16 2022 06:42 am
> Re: Re: Turbo Pascal/C TCPIP Library
> By: Digital Man to Charles Blackburn on Thu Sep 15 2022 17:45:45
>
> DM> You can, yes. But more advanced door (e.g. those that save state
> DM> information to files), would be better written using COM
> DM> I/O so that the door program can detect user disconnect and handle that
> DM> gracefully (e.g. save state information to files).
> DM> Most traditional door games, for example, are written using COM I/O.
>
> COM I/O would be opening uarts etc? how would that go with a telnet
> connection?
Just fine so long as you're using Synchronet for Windows. It has a built-in virtual UART and FOSSIL driver on Windows, for just this purpose. And on Linux, sysops use DOSEMU for this purpose.
> I know in linux it's pretty much just a pipe but ??
Not for a 16-bit DOS program.
> got a ton to read lol
>
> >> i dont do anything fancy text wise i should be good.
> DM> Fancy text is not a problem, stdio, or otherwise.
>
> oooh curses maybe ?
Perhaps, but I don't think you'll find a curses implementation for TP.
> DM> Yes, the standard "drop files" contain that information. If you use a
> DM> door development kit (and there are many of them),
> DM> they handle these details for you (opening/reading the drop files,
> DM> sending ANSI when appropriate, abstracting the reading
> DM> and writing to the serial/COM port).
> any particular one i should go get ?
Try a bunch of them. OpenDoors is probably the best one for C/C++. For Pascal, I think there are a ton of options (door devkits), but 16-bit DOS or native (32-bit) is the first big fork in the road for you to decide.
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