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From: VAF@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU (Vince Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: TCP socket message interface?
Message-ID: <12514957738.24.VAF@Score.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 2 Aug 89 18:36:05 GMT
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Has anyone built an IPC interface on top of BSD sockets to do asynchronous
message passing? Basically, what I want is a library that adds some record
structure to a TCP stream, so I don't have to deal with socket buffering and
waiting for input/output to complete. Ideally, I'm looking for something like
the TOPS-20 IPCF interface (for any of you who's memory goes back that far...)
that uses TCP sockets. I realize that this wouldn't be terribly difficult to
implement (though it might be tricky to do it "right"), but I'd rather not have
to do it myself if someone has already gone to the trouble...

	Thanks,
	Vince Fuller, Stanford Networking
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