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From: rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen)
Subject: Re: Are sockets the wave of the future?
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Date: 25 Aug 90 23:04:24 GMT
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Regardless of what the wave of the future is, presently if you write to
the TLI interface you won't be able to compile your code on a socket-only
system whereas if you use the socket interface you'll be portable to most
TLI systems (since they usually come with socket interface libraries).
If you aren't concerned about optimal efficiency, writing to the socket
interface now would be more portable.