🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:02:30 +0100, Nikki Locke
<nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <3768a6f3.3737861@news.demon.co.uk>, Jim M wrote:
>> Thought as much.  Going to dig around  the VC6 samples for a telnet
>> example.  It seems that establishing a connection to everything on the
>> internet can be done by establishing a telnet session, pointed to a
>> particular port.  
>
>The situation is complicated in a Windows environment because you have to 
>process the I/O through the socket asynchronously while also running your 
>Windows message loop. The Winsock interface provides asynchronous I/O 
>using Windows messages to indicate request completion/error. A simpler 
>alternative might be to run the socket I/O in a separate thread for each 
>server connection.

Indeed..  T'would be for the best.  Took a look at OE the other day
(setting it up for someone).  It's a bit poo how it locks you out when
retrieving the newsgroups list...

>> I suppose I've got be careful with experimenting, due to a recent
>> thread about portscanners in d.service.  Make sure my variables don't
>> get corrupted and all that...
>
>Provided you have all the security patches for your operating system, and 
>that you take similar precautions as you would reading a data file from 
>an unknown source, you should be OK. You should have the security patches 
>anyway, if you are ever connecting to the Internet.

Did a search for security patches for Win 95, and all I could pind was
links for IE4 and 5 security patches.  Were those the ones you are on
about, or are there more that patch holes in the actual OS ?

Oh, cheers for the help BTW Nikki.

Jim M
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@ Derbyshire