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- From: ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson)
- Subject: Re: help with socket
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.023036.9443@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus
- References: <00963214.6F76F4C0@vms.csd.mu.edu> <20809@fritz.filenet.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:30:36 GMT
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- scotth@felix.filenet.com (Scott Hopson) writes:
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- >In article <00963214.6F76F4C0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 5247cuid@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
- >>Dear Netters:
- >>
- >> I have a question regarding the socket. What is it for?
- >>I anonymous ftp some demo files. For exmaple,sockdemo.tar.Z.
- >>I do not know what to do with it after I decompress and untar it.
- >>I can compile the codes in it. But I still do not know how to use
- >>it. Would please give me some help understanding how to use socket.
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- >Try getting a book on networking n Unix, try reading the man pages on the
- >socket call.
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- >Actually, read the man pages first. You will see that it says that a socket is
- >an "end point for communications".
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- >A good book on Unix networking is "Internetworking with TCP/IP" by Douglas E.
- >Comer. It comes in 2 volumes but should help you out quite a bit.
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- >--
- >Scott Hopson (scotth@filenet.com)
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- Get the paper from the archives, use archie.
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- The paper is called
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- socket-primer.shar.Z , you are going to have to tex view the paper but
- it has a good introductory start.
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