I have a MS VC++ program that is using CSockets. Does anybody know how I would send data from a UNIX machine to my program on a PC? I guess since MS does all the work behind the scene I don''t know what format to put my data in so that that the CSocket wrapper can handle it. Any Ideas??? Thanks, Andrew and Bryant

Check msdn.microsoft.com.
Chances are you simply need to marshall (pack) your data into a buffer and pass that buffer to some method of a CSocket class. I can''t say for sure, I''ve never used CSocket''s myself.

Just make sure you call htonl()/htons() on your data before sending it over the wire, and ntohl()/ntohs() when getting it out.

-- jpetrie

CSocket is simply a wrapper around the send/recv calls so you would do the same with that as you would with low-level socket, be it on Windows or UNIX.

Like the anonymous chap said - just make sure you use htons/l and ntohs/l to make sure that when transmitting over the network, everything is in the correct byte order.

Maybe you''re asking a different question in which case could you post more specific questions?

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