Perhaps windows users should simply upgrade to linux?
8-)
Eric
Silvio Macedo wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Richard den Adel wrote:
>
> > I really liked the socked-based interface concept and I think it would be a
> > drawback to your design if you're implementing such a major change only
> > because of the ms-windows problems.
> >
> > I suggest everyone will take some time searching the web to find some
> > documentation about this. The solution might be very simple...
> > Richard
>
> I agree. This is my contribution:
> 1. Javasoft does not include Winsock in its JDK (older versions did).
> 2. According to Java JRE Readme:
> If your application uses the networking classes, it may not run
> reliably under Winsock 1.1. If your networking application must support
> Windows 95, which includes Winsock 1.1, you will want to include a
> Winsock 2.0 install in your installation procedure. (Windows NT 4.0 and
> Windows 98 include Winsock 2.0.) To provide Winsock 2.0, you need the
> Microsoft Windows Sockets 2.0 Software Development Kit. This free
> software can be downloaded from the following addresses:
>
> this one doesn't work:
> http://www.microsoft.com/win32dev/netwrk/winsock2/ws295sdk.html)
> this is ok:
> ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/WinSock/winsock2
>
> 3. So everyone working with the new debugger Platform in M$ Windows must
> have Winsock 2.0 installed.
>
> 4. According to Microsoft MSDN Library, the Winsock SDK even includes a
> trace/debug dll. I know that for example http://www.sstinc.com also has a
> Winsock spy (with a nice GUI). Trumpet winsock also has one. So, it will
> even be easy to debug JDE-DEBUGGER connection in M$ environment.
>
> 5.It's also required that the WINDOWS\HOSTS(.SAM?) in windows 95, or the
> systemroot\System32\Drivers\Etc\HOSTS have at least localhost defined, and
> maybe also the real IP of the current machine (if it has one), as in
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.1.1 myname.mynetwork myname
>
> 6. Other machine running TCPDUMP can clear out any doubt.
>
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Eric D. Friedman
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