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Re: C structures and Java

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh K Jois)
Wed Oct 18 16:09:23 1995

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 10:39:49 -0700
To: mikea@ai.mit.edu (Michael Afergan)
From: suresh@shop.internet.net (Suresh K Jois)
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com

>  I am receiving information as a socket client.  If the server is
>written in C, is there any easy way for me to interpret the data if it
>is sent as a structure?  If so, are there any limitations of the
>fields within it (I assume that pointers are outlawed.)?  Has anyone
>tried something like this before, or is it better to change the C
>server to send characters?  (I'm assuming that if the C server sends a
>character, my applet will have no trouble translating it into the same
>character.)

I've done this before. I assume your client is a Java program or applet, and
the server communicates over a socket. If yes, it is best to send characters
(sprintf to a char array and write() it down the socket).

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