Ron Horner writes:

>I'm trying to have my HP3000 talk to a Sun Unix box.  I heard that if
>you don't use a "common" method of talking, data can be missed.  And
>besides, I don't know C well enough.  I know how to use NetIPC and would
>rather use it.

NetIPC and Berkeley sockets are simply application programming interfaces
(APIs) to the same underlying transport mechanism. They're absolutely
indistinguishable as far as anything outside the HP 3000 is concerned. Go
ahead and use NetIPC.

-- Bruce


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