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From: melohn@mrbill.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Melohn)
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Subject: Re: Are sockets the wave of the future?
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Date: 29 Aug 90 06:34:42 GMT
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In article <1990Aug28.212241.10099@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>Are you saying that Sun does not actually suggest that TLI be preferred
>over sockets for new programs?

Yes. Sun makes no official recommendation as to whether users should
use the socket or TLI method of accessing the network. Both are fully
supported in SunOS, and both have useful features, as does the RPC
method. In fact, we use all three methods in various peices of the
utilities bundled with the operating system. A bug report has now been
filed on the warning message at the beginning of Chapter 10 and 11 in
the Network Programmers Guide.