In article <378 at chessene.UUCP>, root at chessene (Mark Buda) writes: >f = fopen("/dev/hosts/uunet.uu.net/tcp/79", "r+"); How about "/dev/ip/192.48.96.2/tcp/79"? Hey, doesn't VMS do something like that? (shudder.) -- Scott Schwartz <schwartz at shire.cs.psu.edu>