Re: [MACTCL] reinstalling after crashes...

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

At 10:29 +0100 on 24/8/01, Andrew Wilson wrote:

>You're not going to like this...

no indeed not...
the socket code has gotten worse over time while the source hasn't 
changed, we think it is due to the fact that it still uses mactcp 
emulation code in opentransport and that that part of OT has 
deteriorated because nobody much uses it anymore.

I don't plan to look too hard at that code however, it's just too old 
and messy, OSX would have become prevalent before I finished updating 
this code to OS9 standards...

maybe somebody more interested in networking and more familiar with 
OpenTransport could take a look?

>--- cut here ---
>set conn [socket "www.yahoo.com" 80]
>--- cut here ---
>



>--- cut here ---
>wm protocol . WM_DELETE_WINDOW shutdown
>
>set conn [socket "www.yahoo.com" 80]
>
>proc shutdown {} {
>     global conn
>     close $conn
>     after 500
>     destroy .
>}
>--- cut here ---

this is good info, thanks a lot. I mostly uses Tcl sockets 
communication on LAN's myself, so the timeout issue hasn't come up

Until somebody fixes this, it will just have to be a thing to be 
careful about for mac tcl users...

Cheers,

Daniel

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