The Remote Command protocol is used to execute a command on a
server and return the output of that command to the client. This is
most commonly used with UNIX based servers, although there are
implementations of remote command servers for the Windows operating
system. The library supports both the rcmd and rshell remote
execution protocols and provides methods which can be used to
search the data stream for specific sequences of characters. This
makes it extremely easy to write Windows applications which serve
as light-weight client interfaces to commands being executed on a
UNIX server or another Windows system. The library can also be used
to establish a remote terminal session using the rlogin protocol,
which is similar to how the Telnet protocol methods.
This library is supported on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows
Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. If you are
using Windows 2000, it is required that you have Service Pack (SP4)
installed. If you are using Windows XP, it is required that you
have at least Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed and it is recommended
that you install Internet Explorer 7.0. It is also recommended that
all critical updates to the Windows operating system be
installed.
The SocketTools Library Edition libraries are compatible with
any development environment that supports calling functions
exported from a standard dynamic link library (DLL). This includes
Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio 2005 and
Visual Studio 2008. If you are using Visual Basic 6.0 or Visual C++
6.0, it is required that you have Service Pack 6 (SP6) installed.
If you are using Visual Studio .NET 2003, it is recommended that
you install Service Pack 1 (SP1). In all cases, it is recommended
that you have the current updates for your development tools
installed.