How this book is organized

This book describes how to write:

• applications over TCP/IP using sockets

• applications consisting of multiple independent processes running on the same host

• applications over TCP/IP using XTI or TLI

• applications over IPX/SPX using TLI

• NetBIOS applications using XTI

• applications that make remote procedure calls

• SMUX peers that communicate with SNMP agents

This book also contains manual pages for:

XTI and TLI (NET)

Transport Library Interface and X/Open Transport Interface library routines

Socket Library Functions (SLIB)

support routines for socket-based programs

Socket System Calls (SSC)

routines for creating and manipulating sockets

Network System Services (NS)

library routines to access NFS, NIS, and ONC^(TM) RPC, and XDR.

All of these manual pages can be displayed with the man(C) command.