Re: 1980 Basic Sought

On Apr 9, 3:42 pm, ArarghMail804NOS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Well, I was thinking of eventually adding networking capibilities to
> the OPEN statement in BCET.  Something like:
>
> OPEN "<network address or name(:****t)> for TCP as #1
> OPEN "<network address or name(:****t)> for UDP as #1
>
> The first would act like text mode and you could use PRINT & INPUT OR
> LINE INPUT with it.
>
> The second would probably act more like a RANDOM or BINARY file and
> probably use GET & PUT.  Haven't quite decided on this yet.   Maybe
> better to treat both the same.

Chipmunk Basic uses this syntax:
open "socket:addr_or_name",****t for {input|output} as #1
for TCP sockets.  Haven't found a need for UDP sockets
yet.

 Chipmunk Basic: http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic



IMHO. YMMV.
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