RE: Socket information (was Socket problem on V4R5)

Edward Barnes wrote:

>I have a question on sockets. Where 
>can I find information on sockets, 
>This is the seconds time I have can 
>across this function. What does
>it do? Talk to some people that 
>have been programming for over five years
>and they could tell me what it does. 
>Need information!

Where have you looked so far?  Have you tried the library, the bookstore,
the IBM AS/400 web site, the IBM Redbook web site, the Midrange archives?
Sockets information is available in all those places.

With such a broad question it is difficult to begin to formulate an answer
for you, but here goes:  Sockets are a way for two programs to communicate
with each other over a TCP/IP link.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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