Personally, I wouldn't be over concerned with borrowing a little socket code from ROM.
The 10 lines worth of socket code required can be found on 100 sites about socket programming. It's far from stealing, or borrowing. It's just convenient. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 1:56 PM > To: Pell, Blake > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Requesting help > > > On Friday 16 May 2003 11:58, Pell, Blake wrote: > >If you are looking, then re-typing the code it might as well > be copying > >code at which point I'd think it violates the ROM license if you're > >making your own source. > > Oh my god, I've had to bite back sooo many biting retorts. > So, I'll just let the code speak for itself. I'll let the > list tell me if I have a ROM derivative or not... (but > really, honestly, I see no way that I can stop it from being > a ROM derivative if you call it one - there's only so many > ways to send data in a loop to someone!!) > > Really though, of 926 lines of code (real code, non-blank or > comment), 917 are completely unique. (Or... they better be!) > > // Snip. > const char color_ident[16] = { > 'x', 'r', 'g', 'y', 'b', 'm', 'c', 'w', 'd', > 'R', 'G', 'Y', 'B', 'M', 'C', 'W' > }; > const char * colors[16] = { > "\e[0m", "\e[0;31m", "\e[0;32m", "\e0;33m", > "\e[0;34m", "\e[0;35m", "\e[0;36m", "\e0;37m", > "\e[1;30m", "\e[1;31m", "\e[1;32m", "\e[1;33m", > "\e[1;34m", "\e[1;35m", "\e[1;36m", "\e[1;37m" > }; > void telnet_server::write_to_descriptor(descriptor * d) > { > if (serverdown) > return; > string str; > char input[8192], txt[8192]; > int start, write, block, x, length; > str=d->get_outbuf(); > if (str == "") > return; > *input=0; > strcpy(input, str.c_str()); > length=strlen(input); > *txt=0; > for (start=block=0; start < length; start++) > { > if (input[start] == '{') > { > if (input[start+1] == color_ident[x]) > { > strncat(txt, input+block, start-block); > strcat(txt, colors[x]); > block=start+2; > break; > } > } > } > strncat(txt, input+block, start-block); > x=d->get_socket(); > length=strlen(txt); > for(start=0; start < length; start+=write) > { > block=(length-start < 4096)?length-start:4096; > if ((write=send(x, txt+start, block, 0)) < 0) > { > perror("write_to_descriptor() failed"); > return; > } > } > } > > > // End snip > > I will note, however, that your issue of whether or not it's > a ROM derivative is... utterly unimportant. I posted to find > out if I can enlist the aid of someone with skill. Because > I'm at my wit's end.. I cannot figure out why once everyone > logs out of the mud, and someone logs back in, the mud > crashes on the first command they type, and their pretitle is > mystically "You're all set!" and their name is my room description!! > > Oh. Noteworthy: a clean compile didn't fix it... but I hadn't > tried it. Its much appreciated and will go on my list of > "things to try before whining" > > ;-) Thanks Dale. > > Mark > Esheliam > > -- > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GCS d s: a-- C++>$ UL+ P+ L++ !E(---) W- N o? K? w > O- M-- V-- PS+ PE-- Y+ !PGP !tv t+ 5? X? R* b+++ DI+ D- > G++ e++> h---- r+++ y-- > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > > > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >
