Subject: Re: TCP/IP, other protocols, callable from Scheme
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 20 Apr 2001 00:03:32 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <9bnuck$1kiaf$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Olin Shivers  <shivers@tokyo.cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
+---------------
| rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
| > YMMV, but I haven't seen any Scheme implementations with UDP support...
| 
| Scsh provides a complete interface to the Unix socket system -- UDP, TCP,
| Unix domain. Everything. All the flags. All the options.
+---------------

Oops! Of course! My sincere apologies for overlooking "scsh"!
Another private reply suggested RScheme & Kawa as having UDP
support as well.

I amend my statement to read: "*Most* Schemes I've worked with that
had built-in networking primitives supported only TCP, but a few do
allow access to UDP." 


-Rob

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