[Help-smalltalk] Re: Using Sockets

[Aidan Gauland]

Aidan Gauland <aidalgol <at> no8wireless.co.nz> writes:
> gnu-smalltalk-el from sid did not load properly, so I chose to build
> GST 3.2.3.  My socket code no longer crashes gst.  Thank you very
> much!

Claimed victory too soon.  It doesn't crash, but I have no idea what
I'm doing.  I think I once figured out how to create send a string
over a TCP connection in Squeak, but I hadn't a clue what I was doing.
I was just hacking Smalltalk in highschool when I was bored.  I've
done a little with sockets in C, but only going through tutorials.

Could someone please give me an example of using Sockets in Smalltalk
for client-side stuff (or better yet, put it on the wiki)?  There are
a few decent *server* examples on the wiki, but no Smalltalk client as
counterparts for them.

--Aidan

P.S. I ultimately want to write an IRC bot in Smalltalk, because I
don't much fancy the available IRC bots and the languages for which
IRC libraries are available.