Very Computer

We think that it can be done using sockets, but we do not
know nothing about it.

As you can imagine we desperately need some help.

Could anyone send us some source code with an example of
how to achieve it, using sockets or any other procedure...

Is the available some libraries with such kind of functions...

Where could we read to learn something about sockets to
conect unix programs (cc) with windows programs (Borland C 4.5)

Jose,

Look into RPCGEN on your Sun.  This makes sockets programming
easy.  For RPC's on the PC side, I've found two sources:

Spry has an RPC library called tirpc.  It's on Spry's ftp
site (ftp.spry.com) under the name "tirpc.zip".  I've seen
it on other sites (i.e. sunsite) as "ti-rpc.zip".  They're
all the same version.

This looked to be the best solution:  the Sun RPCGEN generated
files compiled first time on my PC, but the "rpc_init()" routine
(which you're supposed to call before calling any other rpc
routines) trashes my stack.  Tell me if you can get this working;
I've asked in all the appropriate newsgroups, but have not recieved
any responces about this.

Another RPC source can be found at:

http://www.netmanage.com/netmanage/products/newtsdk.html

I didn't like this solution since you have to buy all there
products (TCP, etc.) in order to get the RPC stuff to work.

Good luck,

Chris

I am currently doing something very similar with Windows NT (via C/C++)  
and OpenVMS running on VAX and ALPHAs.

It doesn't really matter what the to endpoints are running on. A socket  
is a socket is a socket, etc...

There are lots of good examples floating around out there and if you are  
an absolute beginner I would recomment 'Programming WinSock' from SAM's  
Publishing.  It's got a real good introduction to socket programming and  
it comes with C++ source code for a class to wrap around WinSock that  
will make your life *much* easier.

Good luck,
Patrick Cunningham
Karmak, Inc.