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From: Jon Leonard <jleonard@divcom.umop-ap.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:42:48 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 05:52:54PM +0000, coder@ibm.net wrote:
> On 19/01/98 at 04:31 PM, Richard Woolcock <KaVir@dial.pipex.com> said:
>
> >Out of interest, can anyone recommend a good book on socket programming?
> >It a skill I'm sadly lacking to any useful degree...all I need to do then
> >is work out how to draw a pixel on the screen, and the rest I can do ;)
>
> I started with the man pages nd the sources to a few MUD servers.
> Steven's "Unix Network Programming" and "Advanced Programming Int The Unix
> Environment" are both excellant. I use Steven's "TCP/IP Illustrated" (in
> three volumes) as my ultimate reference. There is another 3 volume TCP/IP
> reference set (forget title or author, but I haven't used or studied them.
I highly recommend the above books, though I slightly prefer the other
3-volume set. It's "Internetworking with TCP/IP" by Comer, possibly with
Stevens, depending on which volume.
Back when I was at a similar stage in MUD development, I was sufficiently
annoyed by the lack of good example socket code that I wrote some of my
own. I've put it at:
http://www.slimy.com/~jleonard/src/ipc.html
I've also declared it public domain code, in the hope that someone may
get some use from it.
Jon Leonard