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From: scott@scirtp.UUCP (Scott Crenshaw)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TLI and Sockets
Message-ID: <1164@scirtp.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 18:32:20 GMT
References: <349@pvab.UUCP> <535.569906912@gonzo.twg.com>
Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC
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> 
> Now, if you question really was: "I have a program written to use
> Berkeley sockets but I want to run it on a SVR3 machine which only
> has streams, what can I do?"  Then the answer is that some people
> who are "heavy into Streams/TLI" have written libraries on top of
> TLI which make it look like sockets.  The inverse operation,
> making sockets look like TLI is probably not possible without adding a
> bit of functionality to sockets.
>
Incidentally, System V Release 4 will integrate sockets,
as well as other goodies from Sun's OS, into the AT&T product.
 
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	   Scott Crenshaw		{akgua,decvax}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!scott
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