> 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