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- ;;; tcp.el --- TCP/IP stream emulation for GNU Emacs
-
- ;; Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- ;; Author: Masanobu Umeda
- ;; Maintainer: umerin@mse.kyutech.ac.jp
-
- ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-
- ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ;; any later version.
-
- ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
- ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ;;; Commentary:
-
- ;; Notes on TCP package:
- ;;
- ;; This package provides a TCP/IP stream emulation for GNU Emacs. If
- ;; the function `open-network-stream' is not defined in Emacs, but
- ;; your operating system has a capability of network stream
- ;; connection, this tcp package can be used for communicating with
- ;; NNTP server.
- ;;
- ;; The tcp package runs inferior process which actually does the role
- ;; of `open-network-stream'. The program `tcp' provided with this
- ;; package can be used for such purpose. Before loading the package,
- ;; compile `tcp.c' and install it as `tcp' in a directory in the emacs
- ;; search path. If you modify `tcp.c', please send diffs to the author
- ;; of GNUS. I'll include some of them in the next releases.
-
- ;;; Code:
-
- (provide 'tcp)
-
- (defvar tcp-program-name "tcp"
- "*The name of the program emulating open-network-stream function.")
-
- (defun open-network-stream (name buffer host service)
- "Open a TCP connection for a service to a host.
- Returns a subprocess-object to represent the connection.
- Input and output work as for subprocesses; `delete-process' closes it.
- Args are NAME BUFFER HOST SERVICE.
- NAME is name for process. It is modified if necessary to make it unique.
- BUFFER is the buffer (or buffer-name) to associate with the process.
- Process output goes at end of that buffer, unless you specify
- an output stream or filter function to handle the output.
- BUFFER may be also nil, meaning that this process is not associated
- with any buffer
- Third arg is name of the host to connect to.
- Fourth arg SERVICE is name of the service desired, or an integer
- specifying a port number to connect to."
- (let ((proc (start-process name buffer
- tcp-program-name
- host
- (if (stringp service)
- service
- (int-to-string service))
- )))
- (process-kill-without-query proc)
- ;; Return process
- proc
- ))
-
- ;;; tcp.el ends here
-