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Article #5804Re: Linux and Windows compatible Client/Server apps using UDP and TCP/IP without any components?
From: Martin James
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:14
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:14
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"Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu" <cpub@hower.org> wrote in message news:Xns94D754C7FDA13cpub@127.0.0.1... > "Martin James" <mjames_falcon@dial.pipex.com> wrote in > news:4089b966@newsgroups.borland.com: > > IMHO, 'blocking components' are a bit of a kludge anyway since you > > nearly always end up having to instantiate them in a thread class unless > > Lets not start this debate again - but blocking sockets are NOT a kludge. If > I had to choose one that was a kludge - it would be not blocking ones, > espcecially if you look at history of sockets and why message based ones were > created under Windows. <g> I said 'blocking components', not 'blocking sockets'. I was referring to visual components that, by themselves, block, like TidTCPClient. I have no problem with blocking sockets. I apologise for not being clearer. Rgds, Martin
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