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Posts: 2027 from 2003/2/24
From: po-RNO
Quote:
connor wrote:
That worked, thanks. I wonder why I have to do that. Because on an Amiga I did not have to do it so many years ago. And what does it actually do?
Depending what TCP/IP stack you did use on the Amiga, it might have been mounted by default on it. Or you just don't remember that you've mounted it at some other point ;)
TCP: device allows user/program to open TCP connections to the net just like you'd open a normal file and allows you to read and write on it. It requires no knowledge of network programming etc, if you want to have simple queries to the network on your programs or scripts. It's quite handy for example with Lua and ARexx scirpts to use some web services for example. Just open a TCP:hostaddress/port file for read and/or write and handle it as a regular file.
TCP: device can easily be enabled from the S:user-startup in MorphOS, there's already a line for it by default, just remove the ; character in front of it to uncomment it.
