[fpc-pascal] Thoughts on Shell Approach to TCP Sockets

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Coyo Stormcaller wrote:
> Despite documentation and manuals, I have not figured out how to use TCP 
> sockets in Object Pascal, since there doesn't seem to be a primitive for 
> it, or any easy way to instantiate sockets and manipulate incoming 
> connections.
> 
> So my approach to sockets is to do it externally. A Bash shell script 
> invokes another script, such as Ruby for binding the socket. Upon 
> recieving a socket connection, it invokes an Object Pascal command line 
> program, passing it socket traffic as standard input.

If you have to do it that way then I strongly suggest using the existing 
netpipes (hose and faucet) utilities.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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