Socket Programming

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This note was written in January of 2026 and filed to the date of the paper at left — the blog entry is a bit of a retrospective.

I worked in the Department of Information Technology Services at the University of Western Ontario (now called Western University) from 1984 until 1998 when I took a position as Sr. Tech. Security in the Department of Information Systems and Technology at the University of Waterloo. In both places I wrote a few technical papers and presented at conferences; very few of these have survived. Many are lost to time.

While browsing the internet the other day I bumped into a paper that had survived: "An Introduction to Socket Programming" filed away on the personal web page of Taieb Znati, Professor Emeritus, of the Computer Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh. The paper was prepared as a tutorial for my colleagues. There are copies elsewhere but it's fading fast.

I have copied the paper into my Google Drive to share; so it won't be lost. You can also, at least for the moment, follow the link to the copy at Pittsburgh.

The original paper includes a copyright notice:

Copyright 1991-97:

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