Re: I need help

[Bob Pendleton <bobp@pendleton.com>]

A complete explanation would take a long time. The idea is that you
create a "listening" socket by creating a socket and binding it to a
port number. You then listen to the socket and every time someone else
connects to the socket the listen function returns a new socket. You can
then read and write data to these sockets. So, every time someone
connects you get a new socket. You keep an array of open sockets and use
select to check for input on the sockets. 

A good source of information for doing this in Java can be found at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/networking/sockets/index.html.
If you want to do it in C/C++ you'll need to look elsewhere. Most books
on UNIX programming include a section on using sockets a good place to
start is http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/unix/sockets.html. Windows provides
the WinSock API which is simply UNIX sockets on steroids.

I went to http://metacrawler.com, one of my most favorite search
engines, searched for the words "socket listen bind" (without the
parenthesis) and found a long list of good sites with info on socket
programming.

				Bob P.

Wyze Guy wrote:
> 
> Would I have to enter a new line for every player connection that signs up,
> or could I just set a whole mess of sockets and leave them open. Please
> ewplain.
>                         Thank you,
>                               Dwyzeguy
> 
> >From: Bob Pendleton <bobp@pendleton.com>
> >Reply-To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
> >To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
> >Subject: Re: I need help
> >Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 20:10:01 -0500
> >
> >Learn socket programming in your favorite language. The basic APIs are:
> >socket, bind, accept, connect, read, write, and close. You'll also need
> >to either use multiple threads or learn to use the select API to handle
> >multiple connections and asynchronous connections/disconnections. Not as
> >hard as it may sound, but you really have to design for multiple players
> >from the beginning.
> >
> >                               Bob P.
> >
> >
> >Wyze Guy wrote:
> > >
> > > How the heck can you interface a game for on-line only playing. I've
> >started
> > > my project on my game and not only do i need an answer to this question,
> >but
> > > i need help.
> > >                                Thanx,
> > >                                  Dwyzeguy
> > >
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