Re: [Bug-gnubg] Socket support?

[Joern Thyssen]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:46:03AM +0100, Øystein O Johansen wrote
> 
> > Is there possible to get some help on how to connect to another gnubg?
> 
> The socket support was created with unix (posix) sockets. Windows systems
> uses something called winsock and unix sockets can not be directly ported
> to winsock right out of the box.
> 
> If you're talking about Linux you can do this:
> Start a master-gnubg, and select one of the players to be external, and
> make a name for your socket. (/usr/home/gnubg/socket). Then start another
> gnubg (slave) which uses an external player for the other player. Type the
> same socket name as in the master. You can now have this two gnubg-sessions
> to play against each other.
> 
> Does this work over TCP/IP as well?

Yes. Use socket names like "localhost:10000".

Jørn