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4 <maintainer type="project">
5 <email>games@gentoo.org</email>
6 <name>Gentoo Games Project</name>
9 HawkNL is a free, open source, game oriented network API released under
10 the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL). HawkNL (NL) is a fairly
11 low level API, a wrapper over Berkeley/Unix Sockets and Winsock. But NL
12 also provides other features including support for many OSs, groups of
13 sockets, socket statistics, high accuracy timer, CRC functions, macros
14 to read and write data to packets with endian conversion, and support
15 for multiple network transports. NL has been tested on Windows
16 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/CE, Linux, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, BSDs, MacOS 7-9 and
17 MacOS X. There are also the two high level APIs, HawkNLU(tm) (NLU)
18 and HawkVoice(tm), which are built on top of NL. It is NLU and
19 HawkVoice(tm) that are most exciting, since they give developers
20 portable, easy to use alternatives to Microsoft®'s DirectPlay® and