[Plib-cvs] plib/doc/net index.html,1.8,1.9

[Steve B. <sj...@us...>]

Update of /cvsroot/plib/plib/doc/net
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv5846/plib/doc/net

Modified Files:
	index.html 
Log Message:
Fixed some odd network library issues.


Index: index.html
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RCS file: /cvsroot/plib/plib/doc/net/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -d -r1.8 -r1.9
--- index.html	21 Mar 2004 17:12:59 -0000	1.8
+++ index.html	22 Mar 2004 19:44:50 -0000	1.9
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 within <code>#define</code> tokens may be separated with underscores
 to make them readable.
 <H2>Initialisation.</H2>
-The first Pegasus call in any program must always be netInit().
+The first NET call in any program must always be netInit().
 <H2>Classes</H2>
 The following class hierarchy makes up the core package - which
 can be extended to add functionality or to change some underlying
@@ -112,6 +112,35 @@
   void print ( FILE *fd = stderr ) const ;
 };
[...63 lines suppressed...]
+  sock -> open        ( false ) ;
+  sock -> setBlocking ( false ) ;
+  sock -> bind        ( host, port ) ;
+
+  while ( !done )
+    if ( (len = sock -> recv(msg, maxlen, 0)) >= 0 )
+      ...use the data...
+
+  sock -> close () ;
+</pre>
+</TD>
+</TR>
+</TABLE>
+This code produces a 'Datagram' connection - which is fast but unreliable
+(using UDP protocol).  Passing a 'true' to sock->open() would produce a
+'Stream' connection (using TCP).
+
 <H2><code>class netChannel</code></h2>
 netChannel adds event-handling to the low-level
 netSocket class.  Otherwise, it can be treated as