From 4e5ad6d5ee9e72ddf6550a6795c18039b265e501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diego Nehab Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:55:47 +0000 Subject: Bug in poll. Debug garbage in compat-5.1.c. Improvements to the user manual. --- doc/index.html | 38 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/index.html') diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index 7141931..727066e 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -47,22 +47,20 @@ functionality commonly needed by applications that deal with the Internet.

The core support has been implemented so that it is both efficient and -simple to use. The core can be used by any Lua application once it has -been properly initialized by the interpreter running the -Lua application. The code has been tested and runs well on several Windows -and Unix platforms. -

+simple to use. It is available to any Lua application once it has been +properly initialized by the interpreter in use. The code has been tested +and runs well on several Windows and Unix platforms.

-The most used modules implement the +Among the support modules, the most commonly used implement the SMTP (sending e-mails), HTTP (WWW access) and FTP (uploading and downloading files) client -protocols. These provide a very natural and generic interface to the e -functionality covered by the protocols. +protocols. These provide a very natural and generic interface to the +functionality defined by each protocol. In addition, you will find that the MIME (common encodings), URL @@ -107,12 +105,12 @@ The library can be downloaded in source code from the following links:

Besides the full C and Lua source code for the library, the distribution -contains several examples, this user's manual and the test procedures. +contains several examples, this user's manual and basic test procedures.

I am also providing PC Win32 binaries for those that want to give -LuaSocket a quick try: +LuaSocket a try (Those on Unix or Mac OS X can just type make):

@@ -126,12 +124,12 @@ The quick and dirty way to use these binaries is to unpack everything into a directory, say c:\luasocket (include all Lua files from the LuaSocket distrbitution in the same directory too!). Then set LUA_INIT to load the compat-5.1.lua and set -LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH to look for files in that +LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH to look for files in the current directory: 

-c:\luasocket\> set LUA_INIT=@compat-5.1.lua
+c:\luasocket\> set LUA_INIT=@c:\luasocket\compat-5.1.lua
 c:\luasocket\> set LUA_CPATH=?.dll
 c:\luasocket\> set LUA_PATH=?.lua
@@ -147,12 +145,12 @@ c:\luasocket\> lua Lua 5.0.2 Copyright (C) 1994-2004 Tecgraf, PUC-Rio > http = require"http" > print(http.request"http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/luasocket/") ---> this gets dumped to terminal +--> the source to this webpage gets dumped to terminal -

Take a look at the installation section of -the manual to find out how to properly install the library after you are -done playing with it.

+

When you are done playing, take a look at the +installation section of the manual to find out +how to properly install the library.

@@ -175,7 +173,7 @@ has been helping a lot too! Thanks to you all!

The big change for the 2.0 (beta3) release was the adoption of the Lua 5.1 -package proposal. There were several bug fixes too (a beta is a +package proposal. Naturally, there were a few bug fixes (a beta is a beta, is a beta).

@@ -195,7 +193,7 @@ beta, is a beta).
  • Fixed udp:sendto to call sock_sendto instead of sock_send;
  • close wasn't returning 1! -
  • socket.gettime returns time since Unix Epoch 1/1/1970 (UTC) +
  • socket.gettime returns time since Unix Epoch 1/1/1970 (UTC);
  • socket.sleep is robust to interrupts;
  • socket.select wasn't calling tm_markstart;
  • http.PROXY wasn't working. @@ -206,8 +204,8 @@ beta, is a beta).

    Incompatibilities with previous versions

      -
    • Namespaces are hierarchical again. This means that whoever called -require("url") should update their code to +
    • Namespaces are hierarchical again. This means that whoever used to +call require("url") should update their code to require("socket.url").
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