Re: Network Communications Information Missing From Docs

[Gary Highberger]

Hi Paolo,

Thank you for the link. Im studying it now. Hmm. Tab complete doesn't work
on the socket options I tried implying something is missing from my
Smalltalk installation. Is the socket class included in the Ubuntu
distribution of Smalltalk 3.2.5?

A link to a simple UDP message example would also be much appreciated.

Thanks again,
Gary Highberger

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 5:51 PM Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> wrote:

> On 04/01/21 23:43, Gary Highberger wrote:
> > information on Sockets programming appears to be missing from
> > gnu-smalltalk-doc section 3.8. See below. if anybody knows where the
> > information (UDP and TCP examples) on gnu-smalltalk sockets programming
> is,
> > please send me a link to it.
>
> You can find it at
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-libs/gst-libs.html#Sockets-package
>
> Paolo
>
> > 3.8 Sockets, WebServer, NetClients
> > ==================================
> >
> > GNU Smalltalk includes an almost complete abstraction of the TCP, UDP
> > and IP protocols.  Although based on the standard BSD sockets, this
> > library provides facilities such as buffering and preemptive I/O which a
> > C programmer usually has to implement manually.
> >
> >     The distribution includes a few tests (mostly loopback tests that
> > demonstrate both client and server connection), which are class methods
> > in 'Socket'.  This code should guide you in the process of creating and
> > using both server and client sockets; after creation, sockets behave
> > practically the same as standard Smalltalk streams, so you should not
> > have particular problems.  For more information, refer to **note
> > Network**programming with Sockets*: (gst-libs)Sockets.  The library is
> > also used
> > by many other packages, including Swazoo and the MySQL driver.
> >
> > -----Info: (gst)Network support, 26 lines
> > --All-----------------------------------------------------
> > Cannot find node 'Sockets'
> >
>
>