Thread: Can someone do me this?

No, I can't help because I don't know network programming.
And I was asking because you seem intent on doing it in C/C++ just because you don't want to ship winsock.ocx.
But I'm telling you that even if you do C/C++, you'll still have to redistribute dlls, possibly even install depending on what compiler.

Runtime can be a complex thing. VB has its own runtime and so does C/C++.
They need to exist on the target computer.
Some runtimes can be placed in the app directory, some cannot. It depends on the compiler.

I'm sure if you goto www.rentacoder.com, you'll find someone to do it at a price you're willing to pay.

What do you mean the program will connect through telnet? Is there a telnet server or is the actual program you want written the server, and YOU connect to it through telnet?

EDIT: Heres some code i've written for you. I have not tested it (you havnt provided the server program for me to test it with) but it compiles without any warnings/errors. You need to link the wsock32 lib

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <winsock2.h>
#include <windows.h>


const char SERVER_IP[] = "127.0.0.1";
const unsigned short SERVER_PORT = 8674;

size_t RecvLine(unsigned int socketId, char* out, size_t outSize);

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
    char msgBuffer[0xFFFF];

    //Initialize Winsock (version 2.2)
    WSADATA wsaData;
    WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2),&wsaData);


    //Create a TCP socket
    unsigned int socketId = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
    if(socketId)
    {
        //Fill in server IP and PORT into address header
        SOCKADDR_IN addr;
        addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
        addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(SERVER_IP);
        addr.sin_port = htons(SERVER_PORT);

        //Try and connect to the server
        if(connect(socketId, (SOCKADDR*)&addr, sizeof(addr)) != -1)
        {
            //If we succesfully connected, than send the "AUTH 1287" message
            strncpy(msgBuffer, "AUTH 1287\n", sizeof(msgBuffer));
            send(socketId, msgBuffer, strlen(msgBuffer), 0);

            //Receive the next line
            if(RecvLine(socketId, msgBuffer, sizeof(msgBuffer)))
            {
                //Check if the line we received is "Correct! 250"
                if(strcmp(msgBuffer, "Correct! 250") == 0)
                {
                    while(1)
                    {
                        //Send the "Show stats" line
                        strncpy(msgBuffer, "Show stats\n", sizeof(msgBuffer));
                        send(socketId, msgBuffer, strlen(msgBuffer), 0);
                        Sleep(60000); //Wait 60 secs
                    }

                } else printf("Error. Incorrect response from server\n");
            }


        }

    }
    
    //Free winsock
    WSACleanup();
    return 1;
}

//Receives a line from a socket
size_t RecvLine(unsigned int socketId, char* out, size_t outSize)
{
    char byte;
    size_t recvCount = 0;

    //Clear the out buffer
    memset(out, 0, outSize);

    for(; recvCount < outSize - 1; ++recvCount)
    {
        if(recv(socketId, &byte, 1, 0) > 0)
        {
            if(byte != '\n')
                out[recvCount] = byte;
            else break;
        } else break;
    }

    //Trim the line (any \r, \n,etc)
    while(recvCount)
    {
        if(out[recvCount-1] < ' ')
            out[--recvCount] = 0;
        else break;
    }

    return recvCount;
}

As you can see it's alot more complex than what you would do in VB and you should have a decent amount of c/c++ knowledge before you go into sockets.

Well done, 39ster. You've just rewarded NeMewSys's laziness.

It's a shame it came to that - nagging rewarded with spoon-feeding.

At least the code is riddled with lots of subtle bugs, that's my only consolation.

uhhg... you have got to be kidding.

Probably best to close this thread before it opens up into a war