Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!apple!well!mmc
From: mmc@well.UUCP (Matthew McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Appletalk sockets in Lightspeed C
Summary: ATPOpenSocket problems?
Keywords: sockets, ATPOpenSocket
Message-ID: <10155@well.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 88 17:31:11 GMT
Reply-To: mmc@well.UUCP (Matthew McClure)
Organization: International Technology Development Corp. (ITDC)
Lines: 33

apTlkErr is always zero, and mySocket also ends up as zero.  Why doesn't
the ATPOpenSocket routine dynamically assign a socket number to mySocket
or return some kind of error?  This same thing happens if I use the DDP
protocol instead of ATP.

Thanks in advance for any help...

/*************************************************************************
*
*       InitNetStuff()
*
*       initialize the AppleTalk network stuff
*
*************************************************************************/
Boolean InitNetStuff()
{
        OSErr apTlkErr;
        AddrBlock addrRcvd;
        
        if(apTlkErr = ATPLoad())
                return(FALSE);
        mySocket = 0;
        addrRcvd.aNet = 0;
        addrRcvd.aNode = 0;
        addrRcvd.aSocket = 0;
        if(apTlkErr = ATPOpenSocket(addrRcvd, &mySocket))
                return(FALSE);
        return(TRUE);
} /* InitNetStuff

Matthew McClure			{pacbell,lll-crg,apple,hplabs}!well!mmc
International Technology Development Corporation
1990 Lombard Street, #250, San Francisco, CA 94123	   415-929-0924