home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!chemabs!jon
- From: jon@cas.org (Jon Vander Hill)
- Subject: What are sockets? (was Re: How to run a Perl under DOS?)
- In-Reply-To: manaster@yu1.yu.edu's message of 8 Jan 93 16:38:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <JON.93Jan11095347@cas.org>
- Sender: usenet@cas.org
- Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
- References: <1993Jan7.182209.1931@unipalm.co.uk> <1268@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu>
- <1993Jan8.071450.7631@netcom.com> <1270@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:53:47 GMT
- Lines: 25
-
- >>>>> On 8 Jan 93 16:38:25 GMT, manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster) said:
-
- > P.S. I keep seeing references to "sockets" in the Perl docs. I have
- > no idea what this means, other than that it doesn't work in the DOS
- > versions of Perl. I assume it is a unix term. What does this mean
- > or do?
-
- Sockets are general mechanism for interprocess communication and
- appear in most modern implementations of UNIX. Typically they are
- used for communication via the TCP/IP protocol suite, but are not
- inherently restricted to one protocol or another. See
-
- Stevens, W. Richard, _UNIX Network Programming_.
- Prentice-Hall, 1990
-
- for all the gory details. The progarmming examples are in C, but
- are easily adapted to Perl.
-
- Jon Vander Hill, System Engineer Chemical Abstracts Service
- internet: jon@cas.org (preferred) P.O. Box 3012 (preferred)
- jon@cas.bitnet 2540 Olentangy River Road
- uucp: uunet!osu-cis!chemabs!jon Columbus, Ohio 43210
- bitnet: jon@CAS USA
- phone: (614) 447-3600
-
-