I need a non-blocking socket tutorial.

You could try to look at the "select" function. Or use multithreading (that''s what I did at first, but I''m trying to figure out how to implement select in my program).

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select is async...and multithreading might be an unessesary step. Check out fcntl(). And also, there is no reason at all why you cant use async in a console app. While windows apps use WSAAsyncSelect(), a console app can implement the BSD select() call just like in a *nix app.

Here''s a function you can use to toggle a SOCKET between blocking and non-blocking mode.

// // Set Socket Blocking Mode // sock = SOCKET Handle // mode = 0 for BLOCKING, 1 for NON-BLOCKING // BOOL SetSocketBlockingMode(SOCKET sock, int mode) { unsigned long lmode = mode; if(ioctlsocket(sock, FIONBIO, &lmode) == SOCKET_ERROR) return(FALSE); return(TRUE); }

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