Unix Socket Programming
                                              
                              Last FAQ update: December 21/97
                              Last page update: December 21/97
                                              
   [Image: Vic] Welcome to the socket faq home-page.  Please accept my apologies if I
   have not, or do not respond to your email.  I try to respond to the items I can, but
   time does not always allow.  I almost never take the time to debug code that is sent
   to me any more.
   
   This page can be found at http://www.ibrado.com/sock-faq in North America and
   http://kipper.york.ac.uk/~vic/sock-faq in Scotland. Thanks to these sites for housing
   the socket faq for us!
   
     * Read the html version of the faq
     * Read the regular text version, as posted to usenet
     * Read the usenet text patch
     * Read the sgml patch
     * Read the enhanced text version. (Includes control characters to make printed
       output nicer. Works well with the gnu "less" utility, and maybe others.)
     * Check out the sgml source used to generate the other versions of the faq. If you
       have SGML Tools, (formally called Linux-Doc) you can generate groff, TeX and rtf
       versions of the faq in addition to those listed here.
     * Download sample source code.
       
   I've had questions from people regarding the .gz and .zip extensions used in some of
   the items on this page, including the sample source. The .gz extension is for
   gnu-zip'd files. You can download the source at
   ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gzip-1.2.4.tar. The zip files can be uncompressed with
   the info-zip package. You can get info-zip from their www page at
   http://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/Info-Zip/Info-Zip.html.
   
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   Some links you might find interesting in your quest for info on unix sockets...
     * Check out Andrew Gierth's excellent "comp.unix.programmer Resources Page".  You
       can use the UK home page, or his North American version which isn't exactly the
       same, but they both contain his comp.unix.programmer FAQ.
     * Internet Standards, Request for Comments and For Your Information documents from
       InterNIC
     * Linked RFC index, with text searching
     * The Simple Sockets Library by Charles E. Campbell Jr. PhD., and Terry McRoberts is
       now available here!
     * BSD Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer
     * Beej's Guide to Network Programming
     * An Introduction to Socket Programming
     * An Introductory 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial
     * An Advanced 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial
     * Richard Stevens' Home Page
     * The tcp/ip faq (The link should work (again) now! - Thanks to those who emailed me
       with the correct address. This has been a real moving target!)
       
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   That's all for now. Please mail comments to vic@acm.org.
   
   Special thanks to kipper.york.ac.uk and www.ibrado.com for providing me with the
   webspace for this page!