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From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (964[jak]-Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TLI?
Message-ID: <1447@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 88 20:54:31 GMT
References: <2584@auscso.UUCP>
Reply-To: rkh@mtune.UUCP (Robert Halloran)
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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Keywords: new ip/tcp, tli, transport level

In article <2584@auscso.UUCP> dewey@auscso.UUCP (Dewey Coffman) writes:
>	Does anyone have any information or pointer to information about
>	a new product called TLI out of AT&T(?) that is supposed to
>	replace tcp/ip on UNIX? E-mail is preferable, but post if
>	of general interest.

TLI (Transport Level Interface) is NOT a replacement for TCP/IP.  It
is an program-level interface to the protocol, and is intended as
an alternative to the BSD socket library.  It is implemented for
the AT&T-supported local networks such as TCP/IP, Starlan and Datakit
(insert appropriate trademarkings here) as of System V release 3, with 
a common set of routines for open/close/read/write/etc.  The WIN/3B
package for TCP/IP on the 3Bx machines provides most of the system calls
for SVr2 machines, as well.

Hope this clarifies things.
						Bob Halloran
						Distributed Programming
						  Tools Group
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