[freespace2] Linux/Windows networking

[Dave Swegen]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 14:27 -0400, Dan Olson wrote:
> If I've got some time this weekend maybe I'll install MSVC and make any
> necessary changes, but if you want to test Windows/Linux net
> compatibility in the meantime, you could probably use the normal boxed
> Windows version, provided you've patched it up to the latest version.
> 
> Please keep us updated if you try anything, it's good to know what works
> and what doesn't.

I forgot to mention that we did try running the demo versions of FS2
against each other, but with no luck - they simply didn't see each other in
the network game setup screen. If I weren't so deeply allergic to windows
(and a better C coder) I might have tried to do it myself ;)

Cheers
	Dave