In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes:

> > Can you write a Cobol program that uses BSD sockets??  I
> > know, and have
> > used, NetIPC.  I'm an avid Cobol programmer at heart.  If I can use
> > sockets, that would be great!!
>
> <insert appropriate apology for not answering the direct question here> Any
> reason that you specifically need BSD-style sockets? NetIPC does pretty much
> everything that BSD does, plus has additional capabilities that are only now
> starting to appear in the BSD world, like conditional accept() and
> pre-connect source identification.

True; the only notable exceptions are access to UDP and the ability to fork
a process with socket-connections intact.

There are a few related routines (like gethostbyname/gethostbyaddr) that can
be very helpful also...

    -Chris (remove nospam) Bartram