launching on Wintel/inter-process communication

[Ken Ray]

> I generally like using sockets, but I tend to reserve their use for apps
in
> which I have reason to believe the system is set up for networking.  In
this
> case, the app is very consumer-oriented, and may be running on a machine
> that hasn't even had PPP set up on it.
>
> So unless there's a reliable way to use UDP or other socket method on a
> machine with no IP, I may be back to polling.

Honestly, I don't know... I have always tried it on default Mac and PC
installations which seem to have whatever UDP needs to operate. Perhaps
Scott can chime in as to its utility on simple computers in the field...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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