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Socket++, by Gnanasekaran Swaminathan (Centreville, VA), is an iostream-like class for Unix and inet sockets, pipes, and socketpairs. Socket++ classes can be used more effectively than directly calling the underlying low-level system functions. Since Socket++ has the same interface as the LibG++ iostream (i.e. like cout and cin), it automatically performs type-safe input and output. Even though Socket++ is very easy to use, it still supports a full complement of socket options including: error reporting, debug mode, keepalives, routing, broadcast datagrams, out-of-band data, and buffer resizing. Socket++ includes a mechanism for handling timeouts gracefully as well. Socket++ runs on many Unix platforms including Sun Sparc, IBM RS/6000, DECstation, and SGI Indigo boxes. Socket++ version 1.4, released on Jun-93