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Re: Cobol and Sockets
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 4 May 2002 17:41:10 +0200
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Peter,

>Now, correct me if I am wrong but NetIPC is a HP 3000 proprietary interface
>and Berkeley Sockets is the open interface that is available on every OS you
>can imagine.

I don't think I'd want to disagree here. However, keep in mind that the
parameter passing in Berkeley Sockets is very much "C biased" and without
being able to use the C header files, it will probably not be convenient
to use from COBOL, Pascal or similar languages.

So you might find it more useful to write your core socket routines in C
and design the parameter passing in such a way that they can be called from
COBOL as well.

Just my EUR 0.02 - your kilometrage may vary ;-)

Lars.

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