[fpc-pascal] Sockets in FPC

[Paul Nicholls]

> Hi
>
> I need to write a daemon on Linux which will wait on a user defined
> port (say 30000) and parse the socket input to write into a Mysql
> database. Can anybody suggest examples in FPC ?
>
> Presently , I am using TCL for this. The problem is the behaviour of
> Gets function in TCL.. It is buffered with EOF as newline.
>
> But i need the socket to have a user defined char like ':' and it
> should be  unbuffered too. I mean dont want an Enter keyed to be at
> the end.
>
> We use various GPRS modules on embedded devices, each with its own
> nuances of terminating a string. So we can't afford to have a 'normal'
> gets or readln behaviours.
>
> Please help
>
>
> regards
>
> Nataraj


Hi Nataraj,
    I'm not sure about actual code examples, but you could try the Synapse 
Pascal TCP/IP library classes, they work on Win32, Linux and I'm pretty sure 
MAC OS too :-)

http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/doku.php

cheers,
Paul