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  From: Anthony Rumble <smilie@LinuxHelp.com.au>
  To  : Darryl Ross <rosdr001@lux.levels.unisa.edu.au>
  Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:49:52 +1000 (EST)

Re: Want to start programming sockets

On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Darryl Ross wrote:

> I want to get into linux programming a bit more seriously than I am at the
> moment. For my first little project, I was thinking of writing a program
> to let me log in remotely to a linux machine and execute a program,
> without needing to use telnet.
> 
> (For my parents server. I want to be able to set it so mum can click a
> button on her Windows machine and it will log in to the Net. She's got no
> hope of learning how to log in using telnet and run the appropiate
> commands.)
> 
> My question is where can I find out information about how to do this? I
> could probably get the actual program to do what I need it to do (run
> external system commands, etc), but I have no idea about sockets
> programming. Is there any good references around that might help me?

The bible for Sockets programming is 
"Unix Network Programming" by the late W Stevens.
I don't know if that one is still in print, but it's White with blue
writing. 

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