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 RPC, and XDR.

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