DN477079388

Subject: Testing request for new NT socket driver - DN [1]

Scott Redman <redman@scriptics.com> - 12 May 1999 - comp.lang.tcl

 In the 8.1.1 release of Tcl/Tk, there is a new
 socket driver for NT.  It uses WSAEventSelect
 and a thread instead of creating a window.  I've
 run the test suite on it, and it's working, but
 someone else has reported that it's hanging
 in event.test with VC++ 6.0.

 If anyone out there is interested in testing
 the NT socket driver, use the CVS repository
 to get the following two files:

     tcl8.1/win/tclWinPort.h
     tcl8.1/win/tclWinSock.c

 You want to use the "core-8-1-1" tag:

     cvs update -r core-8-1-1 ...

 -- Scott

 p.s. The driver uses the old model for Win95/98.
 The WinSock2 driver on Win98 acts differently
 and we didn't have the time (or the debugger) to
 get it to work on Win98.  Win95 doesn't always
 have WinSock2, but if it did it probably would
 suffer from the same problems that Win98 does.