Is rhost() a front end to gethbyname()

[John B. Milton]

I'm new to writing socket code, and I've run across some code that uses rhost(),
which is not in my library. Does this perform a similar function to
geth[ost]byname()? Anybody got some good get-aquainted-to-sockets code?

John
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