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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!bhenning
  3. From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning)
  4. Subject: Re: easy/minor question for everyone...
  5. Organization: Wimsey Information Services
  6. Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:32:28 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <C034u5.1nF@wimsey.bc.ca>
  8. References: <1992Dec30.140017.19788@sfu.ca>
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  11. You are thinking of the loopback mode, can't help you there, never
  12. installed it (yet).
  13.  
  14. A socket is an inter process communications path, see /usr/include/socket.h
  15. on a unix box, then 'man xxxx' where xxxx is a function name for a function.
  16.  
  17. Bill
  18.