Two burning questions are often presented in this group, but never
were they answered in a satisfactory manner. Perhaps it is just too
difficult, or  maybe this knowledge is considered too valuable to
share on a public forum.
Such reasons , I could understand. However please be honest, so
confusion can be avoided in the future.

How can I make a program which performs a simple telnet- or
ftp-session,  using the winsock.dll ? Is there somebody, who has such
a program, and does he/she/they want to share the source code?
Of course, I know of the pasock unit. However, it is not simple to
figure out how to make a telnet application with it. The example is a
finger program only. Perhaps I am an unusual person, but I am not very
interested in doing finger or ping.
I could order some books, study a couple of weeks, and sure I could
figure it out. Unfortunately, that time is unavailable to me. In that
sense, it is very presumptious of me, to ask somebody else to share
his efforts for nothing more than gratitude.  However, I thought the
whole point of having a newsgroup like this, is to avoid  duplication
of efforts.

The same applies to the questions about a gif/jpeg viewer. This
question has  been posted countless times, the answer though has
escaped me. Just a simple piece of source code that can put the
picture on the screen, is it so  complicated ?

Let me be clear once more : Do not answer with "look at homepage
XXX",or  "look in the XXX archive" that answer has been misused too
many times. Just the source code, please.
I realize somebody had to spend a lot of sweat for it, but I am sure
many readers of this group will be eternally greatful for your
sacrifice.

Many thanks in advance,

Simple piece of code? If it's so simple - write it, it shouldn't take
too much time.

In article <4qnj3t$...@icpc02.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp>,
d950...@icpc00.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp says...

Hi there,

Okay, I agree with your points, but I have no source code on me, so
you'll probably be a tad disapointed by my responce. I don't know about
the first part, I've downloaded pasock, but haven't had time to try it.

About the GIFs an jpegs though...

I'm writing a GIF library (which should be finished in about a week or
so) and which not being unbelievably hard to write, it's been time
consuming, and has involved quite a bit of research. I don't plan on
giving the source away! I had the idea of releasing as freeware a
version of the TPU which would load a single GIF images, which would be
fine for most people, and for a small fee (any ideas on how small or
large to my address!) I would be willing to give the source for a full
version which would load GIF files which contain multiple images and the
comment blocks etc. It's nice to get free code (I *love* to get source
code), but there are two sides to every agrument. I do give away quite a
bit of code for free, and this will be my first attempt at making some
money off something I've done, but I feel the time and effort I'm
putting in justify my doing so.

Sorry, I didn't mean for this to turn into a soapbox for me to preach
from, but there you go.

As for jpegs, (again no source beacause I haven't tried it myself yet,
but seeing as I'm here anyway), a quick way would be what most mac
people do, and use the quick time extensions (only you use the windows
extensions!).

Oh, and I have a sneaking suspition that you're trying to write a web
browser (winsock, gif & jpg all esentials for a web browser), in which
case I wish you luck. I'm still halfway thru writting mine (hence my
writiing a GIF library).

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