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From: kozel@MILANO.CISCO.COM (Edward R. Kozel)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  TCP socket message interface?
Message-ID: <8908071548.AA14761@milano.cisco.com>
Date: 7 Aug 89 15:48:54 GMT
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>Has anyone built an IPC interface on top of BSD sockets to do asynchronous
>message passing? Basically, what I want is a library that adds some record
>structure to a TCP stream, so I don't have to deal with socket buffering and
>waiting for input/output to complete. Ideally, I'm looking for something like
>the TOPS-20 IPCF interface (for any of you who's memory goes back that far...)
>that uses TCP sockets. I realize that this wouldn't be terribly difficult to
>implement (though it might be tricky to do it "right"), but I'd rather not have
>to do it myself if someone has already gone to the trouble...Vince,

Vince,
	Check with Len Schlegel at SRI (schlegel@spam.istc.sri.com) for
information on a procedural, non-blocking IPC extension package he's
designed there.

Ed Kozel
cisco Systems