AppleTalk / C Programming Problem

[Michael Peirce]

In article <1991Jan26.151519.1 at telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de>, schaefer at telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:
> 
> If you look at "Inside Macintosh Vol II" Page 283 you come to know
> that the destination-socket must not be in the same node as the source-
> socket. 

Not necessarily true.

There is a call called SetSelfSend that allows AppleTalk to work intranode
in addition to the normal internode.

Many programs and inits turn this on (Public Folder for example turns
on self send).  There's even an init that someone wrote that does
nothing els, but turn self send on.

It's very helpful when debugging network code without having to transfer
the programs around.  (You do have to make sure you are doing things
asynchronously though, or it hangs).

-- michael


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