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[torkell]

Seen on a web site distributing a RTSP implementation in source code form:

How to configure and build the code on Windows

To configure the code for Windows, first unpack it on a Unix machine

The justification for this is, apparently, "it's rather hard to imagine anyone doing serious development of networking software without having any access to a Unix machine". I do have access to a unix machine, however that machine happens to be at the university, which is not where I am.

Come on, you unix fanboys need to learn that not everyone uses unix or unix-variants. Would you be happy if I distributed code that compiled on linux, but only if you first unpacked it on a windows box?

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[torkell]

CamelHump? Not heard that term before. But yes, some of the WSA* and mixed-case functions are very nice.

BTW, you can feed socket handles to the Win32 ReadFile* and WriteFile* functions. Come to think of it, there's not much in the way of I/O handles that you can't feed to those. Shame you can't use CreateFile to create and open sockets.

Anyway, I didn't know you were making a puzzle. I shall have to give it a go once it appears, as the last one was very good.