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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: When can we expect 2.2 release CD?
Date: 23 Feb 1997 18:17:26 GMT
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <fbree5.8j.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>,
conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
> I'd undertake it myself, but...while my knowledge of the C language itself
> is good enough for porting and a little hacking, my knowledge of sockets
> and such leaves much to be desired. :-)
>
> Conrad, whose reference library is sorely in need of further expansion
It's not as difficult as it seems - call socket() to get a file
descriptor, then either connect() it to a listener, or bind(), listen() and
accept() an incoming connection. The man pages are pretty good. It doesn't
take as long as you might think.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....