Socket question

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:21:21 -0400):
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> Okay, this assumes that fP actually uses STDOUT in Win32.  If that's not
> the case, I'm sure Ken or someone else will say so.  If it does, though,
> this is your best bet for debugging it.

filePro on Windows will, by default, use CONIN$ and CONOUT$ for
console I/O.  filePro doesn't use stdin/stdout because full-screen
control is not available via stdio.

Early testing showed that, if filePro were to use stdio (actually,
STD_INPUT_HANDLE and STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), and you were to redirect
stdout to a file, nothing would show up on the screen, and nothing
would show up in the file, either.  Also, redirecting stdin from a
file would not cause filePro to read the file for input.  This is
because the Windows console API doesn't act like file I/O.

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