Send/ReceiveNetworkFile

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 4:40 pm

Is there any way to add error checking in these functions? It looks like neither return anything...

And can anyone shed some more light on the description in the docs for SendNetworkFile : "The file is sent using very specific (and safe) methods."?

Thanks!!

Tranquil · Post by **Tranquil** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 5:42 pm

*lool* better use Send_() and recv_() and you could be sure that it works fine. I got rates arroung 5mb/sec with pure and multiple connections (sending 5 files at the same time and receiving 5 files on one machine at once) That works fine. I think there is no need of sendnetworkfile and receivenetworkfile()

Cheers
Mike

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 5:50 pm

Kind of what I was thinking

woki · Post by **woki** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 6:28 pm

I hate windows centered people

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 7:01 pm

I hate those that hate Windows centered people!

Considering I have 2 windows machines, one Mac, 3 FreeBSD machines and a Linux machine here I'd hardly call myself Windows centered

Doot!

woki · Post by **woki** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 9:07 pm

No problem. It's only to say that SendNetworkFile works for both OS, Send_() and recv_() only in windows. I hope that PB will be more cross compatible as now in the future.

aszid · Post by **aszid** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 12:11 am

sendnetworkdata() & receivenetworkdata() are pretty much identical to send_() and recv_()... but send_() and recv_() and windows API... and until other OS's support the windows API, then you're just out of luck.

anything that ends with an underscore (_) is a windows API command, essentially a function that MS has provided for windows developers... probably one of the reasons it's cheaper to develop for windows...

*editing to explain*

windows has TONS of API commands, many of which can perform complex things, but can still be added to a program with one line. thus cutting the development time, and thus potentially cutting the cost of development (wages for developers).

not to mention... that it's VERY hard to make money programming in anything but windows.... you might make a few bucks from mac... that is assuming you can turn a profit after paying Apple their fees... with linux... pretty much anything you want to sell, someone has an open-source version of it available already, that is likely better with more frequent updates....

*end of edit*

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:37 am

not to mention... that it's VERY hard to make money programming in anything but windows....

Very true. Windows and web programming are the two serious money makers.. Linux is fine and all but I've never seen it as a good client OS (and I have yet to run across any of my clients using Linux in their offices). I use FreeBSD when I need a UNIXish server and OSX when I need a UNIXish desktop OS... Windows does pretty good for everything else...

you might make a few bucks from mac...

Mac stuff is a very vertical market.. If you write something commercially usable for OSX you're sure to sell *some* copies just because you wrote it for Mac. Those users are even more loyal than any Linux zealots! I'm not sure what fees you're talking about paying to Apple though... Just talking about their pricey hardware I guess

Having said that - I love my powerbook! It hasn't been off in the year and a half I've owned it and it's the only %100 reliable computer I have!

aszid · Post by **aszid** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 2:39 am

d'oh... nevermind the apple fee's thingy... that was my mistake... i looked up the article that i thought mentioned it, and i was just plain wrong.

as far as apple goes... i'm not totally biased against them, i just think that they keep shooting themselves in the foot. i remember before OSX came out... they were developing an X86 version of it... and from the rumors i hear, they discontinued it as soon as they realized that PC hardware would run mac software faster than a mac.

anyhow... that's a bit off topic... er... quite a bit...

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 4:00 pm

Apple pisses me off for sure!

They want their hand in the hardware and software cookie jar - you'd think that they would take a hint from Microsoft and develop their OS to compete. OSX has great potential but it will never become that widely used unless they port it to x86!!

K, now we're waaaaaaay off topic. I fear starting a thread in the off topic area because Wayne might start posting stuff about how all Apple users are evil

Just kidding, Wayne -)