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January 1999, Week 3

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Re: Sockets
From:
"Dirickson Robert S (Steve)" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Dirickson Robert S (Steve)
Date:
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:19:52 -0800
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> 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.

FWIW, COBOL(or C, or FORTRAN, etc.)+NetIPC-on-HP *is* "a common method" to
talk to BSD-on-Unix (or to Winsock-on-NT), because the commonality is the
TCP/IP protocol. BSD sockets, NetIPC, Winsock, and their brethren are simply
APIs to access the transport protocols; they are not protocols themselves.

Steve

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