IRIX® Network Programming Guide

Document Number: 007-0810-100

CONTRIBUTORS

Written by Susan Thomas, Jed Hartman, and Judith Radin

Updated by Helen Vanderberg, Terry Schultz, and Julie Boney

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Certain portions of these materials are derived from a document published as an Internet Request for Comment, S. Deering, Stanford University, 1989.

This document uses material from chapters of the 4.3BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents and from various Internet Request For Comment documents.

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Record of Revision

Revision 090November 1999 
Incorporates information for the IRIX 6.5.6 release

Revision 100January 2003 
Incorporates information for the IRIX 6.5.19 release