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@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ -tcpclient and tcpserver are easy-to-use command-line tools for building -TCP client-server applications. tcpclient makes a TCP connection and -runs a program of your choice. tcpserver waits for incoming connections -and, for each connection, runs a program of your choice. Your program -receives environment variables showing the local and remote host names, -IP addresses, and port numbers. +tcpserver and tcpclient are easy-to-use command-line tools for building +TCP client-server applications. + + +tcpserver waits for incoming connections and, for each connection, runs +a program of your choice. Your program receives environment variables +showing the local and remote host names, IP addresses, and port numbers. tcpserver offers a concurrency limit to protect you from running out of processes and memory. When you are handling 40 (by default) simultaneous @@ -14,6 +15,17 @@ tcp-wrappers/tcpd's hosts.allow but much faster. Its access control rules are compiled into a hashed format with cdb, so it can easily deal with thousands of different hosts. -tcpclient and tcpserver conform to UCSPI, the UNIX Client-Server Program +This package includes a recordio tool that monitors all the input and +output of a server. + + +tcpclient makes a TCP connection and runs a program of your choice. It +sets up the same environment variables as tcpserver. + +This package includes several sample clients built on top of tcpclient: +who@, date@, finger@, http@, tcpcat, and mconnect. + + +tcpserver and tcpclient conform to UCSPI, the UNIX Client-Server Program Interface, using the TCP protocol. UCSPI tools are available for several different networks. |