On Thursday, 14 January 1999,
     THOMAS SEELING wrote to IVAN TODOROSKI about Access TCP/IP

 IT>> So even when I do find the toolkit on the CD, it won't do much
 IT>> good for me... so I guess I'll just go with the emx socket
 IT>> implementation (unless the toolkit works with emx?)

 TS> emx tries to do sockets the same way Unix does, i.e. you've got
 TS> file handles and use read()/write()/close() function calls
 TS> contrary to the exclusive way with soclose() etc. which is the IBM
 TS> standard way for OS/2.

  Yes, I know... and you can still use socket-specific send() and recv()
  calls if you like, just like in IBM's toolkit. What you DON'T have
  access to with EMX is some of the very high performance I/O functions
  present in TCP/IP 4.1, but as I said earlier, us mortals don't even
  have access to machines on which these functions would make a
  significant difference... machines on which network I/O is so fast,
  that copying the buffers in memory between calls to send() and recv()
  slows it down! :)

                                                            - Ivan -

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