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Date:Mon Dec 2 19:08:49 1995 
Subject:Re: sockets 
From:A . Sloman 
Volume-ID:951202.08 

> As an aside, the new socket stuff in Poplog 15 is wonderful.  Well
> done to the entire development team!

Agreed. This is all it takes to set up a link to a news server:

	lvars	
		nntp_socket = sys_socket_to_service([^nntpserver 'nntp', "line");

Then you can use sysread and syswrite on nntp_socket (if you know the
NNTP protocols!).

By the way, the example in REF SOCKETS is

          vars nntp_sock =
                sys_socket_to_service(['mc.site.ac.uk' 'nntp'], false);

which will work, but I think should have "line" instead of false. I
found it much more convenient to have a line repeater for reading from
the server.

Aaron