Subj : WinSock
To   : Nightfox
From : Jon Justvig
Date : Mon Jun 11 2018 05:56 pm

  Re: WinSock
  By: Nightfox to Jon Justvig on Mon Jun 11 2018 10:00 am

 JJ>> Here's my code, trying to output using a socket:

 JJ>> char c;
 JJ>> std::fstream myStream("welcome.txt", std::fstream::in);
 JJ>> while (myStream.get(c))
 JJ>> {

 JJ>> send(clientSocket, (const char*)c, size_t(0), 0);
 JJ>> std::cout << c;

 Ni> Where/how is clientSocket declared? And has it been set up with a valid
 Ni> socket handle? That isn't shown in your code snippet. It looks like this
 Ni> code is reading from a text file and trying to send each character from
 Ni> the file over a socket?

SOCKET clientSocket = accept(listening, (sockaddr*)&client, &clientSize);

I intend to read a text file and have it sent to the client through the socket.

 Ni> Also, did you intend for the "std::cout << c" to be indented? It doesn't
 Ni> need to be, as it's not in a separate block of code.

Indentations has no meaning in source code except cosmetically.

Sincerely,
Jon Justvig
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