I use "UNIX NETWORK PROGRAMMING" by W. RICHARD STEVENS (ISBN
0-13-949876-1, Prentice-Hall, Inc.). It is an excellent book about
client/server and socket programming. The book was published in 1990, I
am not sure if they have a newer release.
cheers.
Joel Oliveira wrote:
> Chris,
>
> What a timely question!!! For socket programming I would
> recommend a book by a professor at University of Hartford named John
> Gray. It's called "Interprocess Communications in Unix", the second
> edition just came out recently with a lot of POSIX threads stuff, and
> it also has almost everything you need to know about advanced unix
> programming. Not to mention there are enough examples to help you
> along the way. I've been using this book for most of the semester and
> it's really great..
> Pretty odd becuase I had been planning on starting up my own
> project this summer along the same lines.. somewhat. Good LUCK !!
>
> Joel Oliveira
>
> --> -----Original Message-----
> --> From: Chris "Cranky Spice" Harshman
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> --> Sent: Monday, April 27, 1998 4:20 PM
> --> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --> Subject: Programming questions
> -->
> -->
> --> Being new to Linux, I decided to see what all the fuss is about
> --> and setup
> --> a BBS. I'm a fairly adept C coder, but I've never really mucked
> about
> --> in a UNIX / networking environment before.
> -->
> --> What I want to do is build a multi-user BBS system for Linux (akin
> to,
> --> say, GalactiComm on DOS) and build a multi-user interactive
> --> chat program.
> --> I know this is possible, and I've come across various source
> --> code listings
> --> for similar software, but the code isn't commented very well if at
> all,
> --> and I'm left more confused than before.
> -->
> --> I've gathered that I'll need to use sockets and the networking
> layer,
> --> even though I'll only be connecting to localhost. Can anyone
> point
> --> me in the right direction to do so? Are there any good FAQs or
> websites
> --> or references for beginners? Thanks!
> -->
> --> - Chris
> -->
> -->
> -->
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