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From: karn@sol..bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: SLIP under MSDOS
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Date: 25 Oct 89 21:53:43 GMT
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The version of KA9Q that I've been developing for the past year or
so has an internal socket interface for the applications. It's close
to, but not exactly the same as, BSD sockets. The differences are
mostly caused by the need to use a number space for socket
descriptors that is distinct from file descriptors; to do otherwise
would have required me to rewrite much of the Turbo-C stdio library,
which I considered "outside the scope of the project".

Phil