Re: Network Communications Information Missing From Docs

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/01/21 23:43, Gary Highberger wrote:
> information on Sockets programming appears to be missing from
> gnu-smalltalk-doc section 3.8. See below. if anybody knows where the
> information (UDP and TCP examples) on gnu-smalltalk sockets programming is,
> please send me a link to it.

You can find it at 
https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-libs/gst-libs.html#Sockets-package

Paolo

> 3.8 Sockets, WebServer, NetClients
> ==================================
>
> GNU Smalltalk includes an almost complete abstraction of the TCP, UDP
> and IP protocols.  Although based on the standard BSD sockets, this
> library provides facilities such as buffering and preemptive I/O which a
> C programmer usually has to implement manually.
>
>     The distribution includes a few tests (mostly loopback tests that
> demonstrate both client and server connection), which are class methods
> in 'Socket'.  This code should guide you in the process of creating and
> using both server and client sockets; after creation, sockets behave
> practically the same as standard Smalltalk streams, so you should not
> have particular problems.  For more information, refer to **note
> Network**programming with Sockets*: (gst-libs)Sockets.  The library is
> also used
> by many other packages, including Swazoo and the MySQL driver.
>
> -----Info: (gst)Network support, 26 lines
> --All-----------------------------------------------------
> Cannot find node 'Sockets'