[TUHS] networking on unix before uucp

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Aug 23 04:11:42 AEST 2014


On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Ronald Natalie wrote:

> I hate the socket interface, at least once you use it's goofy interface 
> on UNIX, it works mostly like a file descriptor.

In a previous slavery we had a simple socket library; the application did 
little more than say whether it was a client or a server etc.  I wish I 
could steal that code now...

> The sucky one is Windows which has a socket interface but it's file read 
> and write calls are completely incompatible.

Well, we mustn't imitate Unix, must we?

-- Dave



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