At 03:05 PM 3/09/2003 +0000, Peter Jacobi wrote:

>Whereas I agree on NetBUI advice etc, the above isn't quite
>true - it is possible and much saner to look firs for
>a dottet decimal:
>
> host.s_addr = inet_addr (servername);
> if (host.s_addr == INADDR_NONE) {
> // Wasn't an IP address string, assume it is a name
> hostent *hostentry = gethostbyname (servername);

If you look at the original message, you'll see he isn't using Fb 1.5, he's
using Fb 1.0.

heLen