netmodule

#Net

##Description The Net module allows TCP/IP equipped machines to communicate. In the current implementation (WinOOT 3.0), this is available only under Win32 (Windows 95, 98, NT and later).

To allow two machines to communicate, there must be a server (which calls Net,WaitForConnection) and a client (which calls Net.OpenConnection). The server waits until a client connects and then starts communication between the two. When a connection is established, a net stream is returned that can be used in the same fashion as a file stream (i.e. using puts and gets**)**. Once the connection is finished, the programs call Net.CloseConnection.

For ease of reading web pages, the Net.OpenURLConnection opens up a URL for reading with the get statement. It is up to the user program to interpret the HTML or file located at the URL.

All subprograms in the Net unit are exported qualified (and thus must be prefaced with "Net.").

##Entry Points

net_waitforconnection.html Waits until a client connects to a specified port. net_openconnection.html Opens a connection to a specified machine. net_openurlconnection.html Opens a connection to a file specified by a URL. net_closeconnection.html Closes a specified connection. net_bytesavailable.html Returns the number of bytes available to be read from a net stream. net_charavailable.html Returns true if there is a character available to be read from a net stream. net_lineavailable.html Returns true if there is a line of text available to be read from a net stream. net_tokenavailable.html Returns true if there is a token available to be read from a net stream. net_hostaddressfromname.html Returns a host's address given its host name. net_hostnamefromaddress.html Returns a host's name given its address. net_localaddress.html Returns the host name of the local machine. net_localname.html Returns the TCP/IP address of the local machine.