Socket Programming Book Recommendations

[david_news2000]

Any book recommendations for a beginner doing socket programming on
AIX?

I've seen rave reviews of the late Richard Stevens' books, but he seem
to be writing for System 7 and Postix? Does it matter?

Thanks.

[Nicholas Dronen]

david_news2000 <david_news2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
dn> Any book recommendations for a beginner doing socket programming on
dn> AIX?

No such books exist. The Berkeley sockets interface doesn't vary
much from UNIXy operating system to UNIXy operating system. In fact,
they're so common that they're part of a standard:

[url]http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xnsix.html[/url]

That being said, IBM does have this documentation:

[url]http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/aixprggd/progcomc/progcomctfrm.htm[/url]

dn> I've seen rave reviews of the late Richard Stevens' books, but he seem
dn> to be writing for System 7 and Postix?

POSIX.

dn> Does it matter?

No, it shouldn't matter. You'll find little or no use for the TLI
section of his book, but the rest is handy.

Regards,

Nicholas

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[david_news2000]

Hi Nicholas,

Awesome, thanks!!

Nicholas Dronen <ndronen@io.frii.com> wrote in message news:<3f770de2$0$62079$75868355@news.frii.net>...

> david_news2000 <david_news2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> dn> Any book recommendations for a beginner doing socket programming on
> dn> AIX?
>
> No such books exist. The Berkeley sockets interface doesn't vary
> much from UNIXy operating system to UNIXy operating system. In fact,
> they're so common that they're part of a standard:
>
> [url]http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xnsix.html[/url]
>
> That being said, IBM does have this documentation:
>
> [url]http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/aixprggd/progcomc/progcomctfrm.htm[/url]
>
> dn> I've seen rave reviews of the late Richard Stevens' books, but he seem
> dn> to be writing for System 7 and Postix?
>
> POSIX.
>
> dn> Does it matter?
>
> No, it shouldn't matter. You'll find little or no use for the TLI
> section of his book, but the rest is handy.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nicholas