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From: greg@carnivore.tamu.edu (Greg Economides)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Sending struct through DGRAM socket
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Date: 18 Apr 91 15:35:05 GMT
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I am trying to communicate with a forked process using a DGRAM socket
(AF_UNIX) on a Sun 386i (OS 4.0.2).  What I really want to send through
the socket is a small struct (about five float fields).  I have been
using the `sendto' and `read' functions which need a (char *) to send
through the socket.  These work fine with character strings, but do not
do so well with structs.

Is there a quick/clean way to translate a struct into a character stream 
(and then a way to get the struct back) so that it can be sent using these
functions?  Is there a better or more straight-forward way of doing this?
I am still quite a fledgling sockets programmer.

Thanks for any and all help.  I will summarize the responses if there is
interest.

Peace,
--
Greg Economides                          "This sentence is false" 
Technical Lab Coordinator 
Texas A&M University -- Biosystems Modelling Group
Internet: greg@carnivore.tamu.edu