NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/os/linux/23456

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Subject: Client/Server Coding
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 14:19:45 GMT
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Mike, I've used "UNIX Network Programming" and "Advanced Programming in
the UNIX Environment" by W. Richard Stevens as work-a-day references
for client server examples.  Comer, of XINU fame, also has an
interesting series on kernel design, transport implementation, and
network application development.  "Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol 3"
is thought well of by "Computer Literacy Bookshops".  The first two
volumes deal with specification, design, and implementation of the
internet protocols.  This volume "explores the essentials of how to
develop applications for TCP/IP."  This is supposed to complement
Stevens nicely.  If you have RPCGEN and its libraries available, "Power
Programming with RPC" by John Bloomer, is a good intro to use of ONC
remote procedure calls.

I personally own Comer's XINU kernel book (UNIX Edition 7 workalike for
PDP-11) and "Internetworking in the XINU Environment".  These are well
written and show him to be a good teacher (Purdue University with the
Dennings), good designer and coder.  The Stevens books are excellent.
They tour all of the useful system calls and primitives.  He shows how
to use AT&T semaphores correctly, for example.  His network programming
develops a number of familiar applications, like telnet, as examples.
His addvanced programming book is good for people coming to UNIX from
elsewhere.  It covers all of the sorts of things you might want to do
in making full scale applications.  Stuff like finding out what's on
the disk, he goes well beyond most texts on C programming.

I hope these are of help.

Dave Hamby
ABB Power Plant Controls
[e-mail]