Begin3 Title: Simple Sockets Library Version: 2.09 Entered-date: 4/15/1999 Description: Makes sockets easy to use! And, it comes as public domain source code: * Resembles C file i/o (Sclose Sgets Sopen Sprintf Sputs Sread Sscanf Swrite) * Uses whatever port number is available (so servers can always be brought up * Named sockets -- servers have names, not fixed ports! * Streaming/blocking sockets used * Polling supported (Stest Smasktest Speek) * Multiple concurrent client handling (Smaskset Smaskunset Smaskwait ...) * PortMaster provided (holds "phone book" for servers & their port numbers) * Doesn't need root privileges * Supports fixed ports * Server example: Socket *srvr; srvr = Sopen("MyServer","s"); * Client example: Socket *client; client= Sopen("MyServer@ahost","c"); Keywords: tcp/ip sockets streams simple communications Author: Charles.Campbell@gsfc.nasa.gov Terry.L.McRoberts.1@gsfc.nasa.gov Maintained-by: Charles.Campbell@gsfc.nasa.gov Primary-site: http://kipper.york.ac.uk/~vic/sock-faq/ssl.tar.gz lsm-template 159kB ssl.tar.gz Platforms: Unix (Sgi, Dec, Aix, Sun, Sparcstation, Solaris, SCO) VMS Win95/98 Copying-policy: public-domain End