How to use sockets?

[Jan Schenkel]

--- thierry <douez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i've read in some technical books that Datagram is
> not a sure way
> to send information; means that some transport
> packets can be lost
> over the Net.
> 
> Can someone tell me if it's still true on a single
> Win machine with
> 2 applications talking together with Datagram
> sockets ?
> 
> or pointing some good information on this ?
> 
> thanks a lot,
> 
> Best regards,  thierry
> 

Hi Thierry,

Just a note of warning : it's hard to imagine in these
Internet times, but there are plenty of Windows
computers where the TCP/IP network protocol is not
installed or not turned on -- and UDP and TCP will not
work on such machines.

Jan Schenkel.

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