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From: mk@apollo.COM (Mike Kong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Need help with NCS programming/documentation
Message-ID: <43b5cf98.feda@apollo.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 89 16:11:00 GMT
References: <11712@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: mk@apollo.COM (Mike Kong)
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In article <11712@netnews.upenn.edu> lau@scrolls.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau) writes:
>Has anyone done programming with NCS?  We have the NCS Reference
>manual and the examples loaded onto our system but the documentation
>is incomplete.  For instance, many of the examples use socket_$ calls
>but there is very little discussion of them in the reference manual.
>I think these calls are in defined /usr/include/idl/c/socket.h loaded
>with the NCS software and not in the standard <sys/socket.h>.
>Where is there more extensive documentation?  There's only so much
>one can figure out from examples and include files.  Thanks.

The next version of the NCS Reference will describe the socket_$ calls, along
with other old and new functionality not covered by the first version.  Look for
the new manual with the next release of NIDL.

For a readable online description of the socket_ interface, refer to
/usr/include/idl/socket.idl rather /usr/include/idl/c/socket.h (socket.h
is generated from socket.idl).

Mike Kong