In article <403 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes: >Oddly, neither it [K&P] nor K&R mention the word "socket", WHY!?! Why should they? K&R is about the C programming language, and K&P is about elegant use of UNIX. Sockets have nothing to do with either.