Topics:

Overview
Copying
Supported Platforms
Unzipping

Overview:

The VB Socket Communications Library is a collection of C++ classes used to build portable TCP/IP and RS232 data communication applications as part of the VBD or independently.

VB Socket Library Features:

• WIN32/UNIX Interoperability
• Object-Oriented Design
• Stream sockets
• Datagram Socket
• RS232 communication components
• Built-in network database components
• Variable block real-time TCP/UDP streaming
• Variable block RS232 streaming

Several example programs with makefiles for each of the supported platform/C++ compilers are provided to test and demonstrate each component of the library.

All the documentation for the distribution is provided in an HTML format. The documentation covers the VBS C++ class library, the example programs, and the utility programs provided with this distribution.

The VBD, VBS and VBT C++ classes are copyright (c) 1997 and 2000 by Douglas M. Gaer.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

Supported Platforms:

The vbSocket C++ class library and the example programs have been compiled and tested using the following platforms:

WIN32 - Microsoft Visual C++ version 4.2 and higher

WIN32 - Borland BCC32 version 5.5

HP-UX B.10.20 A 9000/819 - HP92453-01 G.10.32.05 HP C Compiler

HP-UX B.11.00 A 9000/780 - HP92453-01 A.11.01.00 HP C Compiler

Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo) Kernel 2.0.36 on an i586 - gcc version egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)

SunOS 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW, Ultra-5_10 - Sun WorkShop C++ 5.0 (4.2 compatibility mode)

Unzipping The Distribution:

The entire distribution requires approximately 5 MB of free disk space to unzip. Two distributions are available, one for

Windows 95/98 and one for UNIX.

Windows 95:

To unzip this distribution you will need a copy of PKZIP version 2.03 for DOS or WINZIP version 6.1 or higher for Windows 95. To unzip using PKZIP 2.03 follow these instructions:

C:\>mkdir vbsocket
C:\>copy vbs2000.zip c:\vbsocket
C:\>cd vbsocket
C:\vbsocket>pkunzip -d vbs2000.zip

UNIX:

To unzip this distribution you need a copy GZIP/GUNZIP version 1.2.4 or higher. To unzip using GZIP and the UNIX tar utility follow these instructions:

% gzip -d vbs2000.tgz
% tar xvf vbs2000.tar

To unzip using GUNZIP and the UNIX tar utility follow these instructions:

% gunzip vbs2000.tgz
% tar xvf vbs2000.tar

NOTE: You can use UNZIP for UNIX version 5.12 to unzip the Windows 95/98 distribution:

% mkdir vbsocket
% cp vbs2000.zip vbsocket\vbs2000.zip
% cd vbsocket

% unzip -a -L vbs2000.zip

The unzip "-a" option will auto-convert any text files and the

"-L" option will make the directory and file names all lower case.