On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Vadim Zeitlin wrote: > Sorry, neither of those are transports -- they're both protocols. > Transport is, for example, TCP/IP.
Sorry, yes, I know the difference, and I shouldn't use them interchangably. I'd be adding a new protocol and transport. I'm not going to add the transport to the os level though, at least not yet. That would be a huge PITA (and it's been done before, to only minor practical use). It's not much of a transport though, the pactor takes care of many things, such as hand-shaking, error correction, and a few other things. > So you would want to use something else instead of TCP/IP, right? With the current level of OS support (cross platform, though Linux support has many fine attributes), it's basically just talking to the serial port. Think back to the BBS days. > Yes, all network code is in c-client library. The good news is that it > is easily extendable by design, i.e. you can add new protocols *and* > transports (and authentificators and what not) quite easily. The bad news > is that I personally don't know much about this but if you can explain a > bit better what do you want to do I could give you at least some general > directions. I can handle all the radio/serial/pactor stuff. I should probably break open my networking book to the chapter about forward error correction, but the pactor is decent about such things Naievely, I need two function calls to interface: 1) sendMail - Takes a MIME encoded message in string form, it's length (or I could do a strlen(), and a list of addresses. From there, I can asychronously manage the serial port and pactor. Synchronous operation would leave the system a bit too unresponsive (at 200 baud, simplex communication, and difficult switching, the pactor can take up to a minute to send even a small amount of text). 2) readMail - Takes roughly zero inputs. Returns a MIME encoded message in string form. Shortly, I would probably split readMail into listMail, and readMsg(num), with sort of obvious return values -Ron -- Ron Alford, KB0NUV http://volus.net/~ronwalf ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
