Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multi-window display

[Andy R. <an...@pl...>]

Andy Ross wrote:
> No, not with UDP.  UDP sockets can be in an "unconnected" mode where
> they can send packets to any IP/port combination.  Take a look at the
> sendto(2) system call for the Unix implementation; it takes a struct
> sockaddr parameter for each packet sent.  I presume windows has a
> functional equivalent.

It does.  I found the following nifty site:

http://www.sockets.com/winsock.htm#SendTo

I hadn't realized it, but "winsock" is actually more or less a plain
clone of the BSD sockets API.  I guess I was expecting that it was
gratuitously different, but it's actually quite sane.  Can you tell that
I'm not a windows guy?

Andy

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