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Most functions will return -2 if the bsdsocket.library is
not open.
### Setup
---
## Setup
#### ADDR=Socket Library Open
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* If needed, you'll be able to directly access library functions
using this address.
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#### Socket Library Close
Close bsdsocket.library. This is safe to call if the library
is not open
---
#### RESULT=Socket Set Nonblocking(Socket, IsNonblocking BOOL)
Make a socket blocking (False, default), or nonblocking (True).
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* Result of IoctlSocket call.
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#### RESULT=Socket Reuse Addr(Socket)
Make a listening socket reuse the address it's trying to bind to.
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* Result of setsockopt call.
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### Connections
## Connections
#### SOCKET=Socket Create Inet Socket
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* Socket number on success
* -1 on failure
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#### RESULT=Socket Connect(Socket to IPAddress$, Port)
Attempt to connect to a remote host. Currently doesn't
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to see if the connection succeeded
* -11 port out of range
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#### RESULT=Socket Reuse Addr(Socket)
Set a server socket to reuse an interface and port that had
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The result of calling setsockopt() while setting your socket
to reuse addresses.
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#### RESULT=Socket Bind(Socket to IPAddress, Port)
Attempt to bind a socket to a network interface. Use
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* -1 on other error
* -11 port out of range
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#### RESULT=Socket Listen(Socket)
Start listening for connections.
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* 0 on success
* -1 on failure
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#### NEW_SOCKET=Socket Accept(Socket)
Get the socket that connected to this one. Wait for a connect
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* The remote socket number on success
* -1 on failure
#### RESULT=Socket Async Wait Reading(Socket, Wait_ms)
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#### RESULT=Socket Wait Async Reading(Socket, Wait_ms)
Wait the given number of milliseconds for the nonblocking socket to be ready for reading.
Use this when you're waiting for a client to connect to you, or if you're waiting for
a remote socket to send you data.
Use on a listen socket to await new connections, or on a connected socket to await
incoming data packets.
##### Returns
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* -1 on error. Use `Socket Errno` for more detail.
* 1 on success.
#### RESULT=Socket Async Wait Writing(Socket, Wait_ms)
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#### RESULT=Socket Wait Async Writing(Socket, Wait_ms)
Wait the given number of milliseconds for the nonblocking socket to be ready for writing.
Use this when you're connecting to a remote server and want to know if the connection
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checks will return 1.
* 1 on success.
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#### RESULT=Socket Set Timeout(Socket, Wait_ms)
Set a socket to timeout after Wait_ms milliseconds if reading or writing doesn't complete.
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* 0 on success
* -1 on error
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#### RESULT=Socket Close Socket(Socket)
Close a socket.
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* 0 on success
* -1 on error
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### Data Transfers
## Data Transfers
#### SENT=Socket Send$(Socket, String$)
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* Number of characters sent
* -1 on other error
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#### SENT=Socket Send(Socket, Data Pointer, Length)
Send a block of data to a connected socket.
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* Number of characters sent
* -1 on other error
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#### DATA$=Socket Recv$(Socket, MaxLength)
Retrieve at most MaxLength bytes from Socket, and put them into a string.
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* String of data, which is blank if there is no more data.
### LENGTH=Socket Recv(Socket to Dataptr, MaxLength)
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#### LENGTH=Socket Recv(Socket to Dataptr, MaxLength)
Retrieve at most MaxLength bytes from Socket, and put them into the memory
address at Dataptr.
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* Count of bytes read
* -1 on error
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### Informational
## Informational
#### HOST=Socket Get Host(Socket)
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* Host as a long value
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#### PORT=Socket Get Port(Socket)
Get the 16-bit port (Word) value the given socket is using.
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* Port as a word value
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#### RESULT$=Socket Inet Ntoa$(Host)
Turn a long Host address into a string.
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* IP address as string
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#### RESULT=Socket Errno
Get the error from the last command. Note that this is
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Error number from last call. Look in <sys/error.h> for more
details.
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#### RESULT=Socket Herrno
Get the error from the last DNS resolver command.
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Resolver error number (`h_errno`) from last call.
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#### RESULT$=Dns Get Address By Name$(Domain Name$)
Look up the first IP address associated with this hostname.
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String with IP address, or blank string on error.
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#### RESULT=Socket Status(Socket)
Returns basic connection information about a socket.
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* 6 = Connecting
* 7 = Connected
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### Low Level
## Low Level
#### RESULT=Socket Setsockopt Int(Socket, Option, Value)
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* Result of setsockopt call
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#### RESULT=Socket Getsockopt Int(Socket, Option)
Get a socket option. You probably want SO_ERROR,
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* Result of getsockopt call
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#### ADDR=Socket Fdset Zero(fd_set)
Clear out the specified fd_set.
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* Address to that particular fd_set
* -1 if fd_set out of range. You get 16 of them.
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#### ADDR=Socket Fdset Set(fd_set, Socket to Value BOOL)
Set or clear a socket bit in an fd_set.
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* Address to that particular fd_set
* -1 if fd_set is out of range or socket is out of range.
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#### RESULT=Socket Fdset Is Set(fd_set, Socket)
See if the particular socket remained after a Socket Select call.
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* True or False if the socket is set or not
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#### RESULT=Socket Select(Max Socket, Read fd_set, Write fd_set, Error fd_set, TimeoutMS)
Wait for the specified number of milliseconds. If any of the sockets
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* 0 on timeout
* -1 on error
* # of interesting sockets on success