[Gllug] windows and linux client server

[Nix]

On 24 Jun 2002, Russell Mackenzie stipulated:
> Yes, you can create sockets(winsock) in your favourite language on lin
> 'n win, throw stuff in the one side and have it come out the other
> without a problem.

Just remember all the things you have to remember with portable file
formats and other serialization problems: type sizing, endianness,
structure padding, possibly floating point format differences: you might
want to send ASCII text, which is at least a bit standardized (but
make sure the other end's not expecting Unicode ;} )

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