Timeout on read()?

Dennis Lee Bieber wlfraed at ix.netcom.com
Thu Aug 24 01:28:43 EDT 2000


On 23 Aug 2000 15:45:10 -0400, David Bolen <db3l at fitlinxx.com> declaimed
the following in comp.lang.python:

> "Alex Martelli" <alex at magenta.com> writes:
> 
> > Winsock was born back when Windows (3.0 at the time, I believe) lay
> > over a DOS 'kernel'.  Being able to obtain generic HANDLE for 'kernel
>
> All true - I only wish that when WNet was being taken care of to be
> able to work as HANDLEs (since clearly even the original Windows
> networking predates HANDLEs as well back from the original
> NETBIOS/Lanman days) that they also included Winsock as just an

	Winsock isn't a pure M$ definition, however. From what I've
read, NetManage (Internet Chameleon software) had a big part in the
definition of the W3.x Winsock (and I've seen NT3.51 systems using
NetManage for networking).

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