On Jun 09, 1996 at 05:29, Frank Malcolm of 3:711/934.24 wrote:

 FM> Yeah, but what I'd really like is an intelligent discussion about
 FM> SOT/EOT, and PKTs in general.

I've started creating (*very* early pre-alpha stuff) some objects (in C++
at the moment, shouldn't be too difficult to rewrite in Delphi) for
handling packets.  The driver program to create a null (empty) paket then
looks like this:

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#include 
#include "FPacket.h"

int main(void)
{
   FAddress3D  orig;
   FAddress3D  dest;
   FPacket     pkt;

   orig.zone = dest.zone = 3;
   orig.net  = dest.net  = 712;
   orig.node = dest.node = 934;
   pkt.setOrig( &orig );
   pkt.setDest( &dest );

   cout << pkt;
   return(0);
}

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The binary packet is then written to stdout.  I tested this packet with
David Nugent's InspectA, and it reports it as a correctly formatted
"stone age" (Type 2) packet.  I haven't added Type 2+ support
yet, that's to be a derived class from the current FPacket class.

Interested?


    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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