C++ talking to Unix

[scecilia]

Hello,

How can I make a C++ program running on Windows 2000 read data (read from a file for example) located in a Unix system?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Cagliostro]

you can use
TCP, FTP, HTTP, SOAP, RPC, CORBA as well as some other protocols like UDP, IPX. I'd say you to use one of RPC, CORBA or SOAP, or at least HTTP. You can use TCP directly, if the functionality of your applications would be small.



Ion Filipski

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[scecilia]

Thank you Ion. Are there any examples you can point me to to achieve this?

--Cecilia.

 

[Zyrenthian]

When I first started at my current job a few years back, we had a tool that mapped unix drives on our system. I forget what it was, but I know it exists. That could be another solution. The big thing to look out for is the endianism of the data you will be transfering. You may need to perform some byteswapping on the data.

Matt

 

[xwb]

Try using Samba on Unix. I think that is what Zyrenthian is referring to.

Corba: a lot of the packages tend to be Java based. There are some which are is C++ based, free, with source code provided. Examples: try TAO or Engine room Corba, possibly even early versions of Visibroker from the Borland museum. I don't know if these are still free.

 

[Cagliostro]

Hi,
Many of tutorials and samples are easy to use and/or to understand. Do a simple search in google and you'll find a lot of them.

Ion Filipski

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