Dear All,

I have to make linux-i386, linux-arm and win-xt computers to communicate together for the instrumentation of a small farm of robotic telescops - telescope control, camera control, image analysis and "chef d'orchestre", with remote access.

Can I use the same sockets unit for linux and windows systems ? Is this not too hard ? I'd like to use the same source code on all these machines - i.e. no specializations.

Some hints ?

Cheers, Ched'

What's win-xt in this context?

Can I use the same sockets unit for linux and windows systems ? Is this not too hard ? I'd like to use the same source code on all these machines - i.e. no specializations.

Should be common code, animated by a thread. I tend to focus on Linux/unix, working from memory- and this isn't recent so things might have changed- the only significant difference was in the details of some name resolution stuff.

However my suggestion would be to look for a pre-existing protocol, either a telescope control protocol even if it only exists on serial connections (I was thinking INDI there, but it already appears to be networked) or a suitable XML-based instrumentation protocol (I wasn't thinking INDI, but it appears to fall into that category :-)

I'd say that a Pascal translation of the INDI headers would be in everybody's interest.