Re: Purpose of rawsock module

Sam Steingold <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clisp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> * Don Cohen <[email protected]> [2016-05-27 18:14:37 +0000]:
>
> Sam Steingold writes:
>
>  > Sockets are the OS-level interface to TCP/IP.
>  > Thus all the functions in rawsock can, should(must!) and did work on all
>  > "modern" operating systems (i.e., linux, *bsd including mac os x,
>  > windows xp and later, all other unixes released after 2000 - but not on
>  > atari and amiga).
>
> TCP/IP uses sockets but not raw sockets.
> I agree that TCP/IP should work on windows, but it can do so
> without rawsock working.  
> It did, long before rawsock was added, and I hope still does.

CLISP has "normal" socket interface and the "rawsock" module.
both are cross-platform and both should (and did) work on all platforms
were CLISP works.

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