From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 26 11:16:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C5514DF8 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 11:16:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id LAA08162; Wed, 26 May 1999 11:16:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA20543; Wed, 26 May 1999 11:16:18 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA20932; Wed, 26 May 99 11:16:16 PDT Message-Id: <374C3A6F.963C24AC@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 12:16:15 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Anderson Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial ports References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Keith Anderson wrote: > > Dear All > > Could someone point me in the correct direction for help with 'c' > > Some examples for opening a serial port for comms. > Opening tcp connections for use with mysql. > > I'm a programer from the 70's (DOS) and learning FBSD. Congratulations, and welcome to the real world. Here are a couple of books I can recommend heartily, both by W. Richard Stevens. The first is "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment", the second "UNIX Network Programming: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI" volume 1. Mr. Stevens is a good writer and accomplished UNIX and TCP/IP researcher. Both of these books are highly recommended by just about everyone, they will make your transition to being a real UNIX programmer quite a bit easier. Both of these appear to be in print currently, so you should be able to find them (or order them) through any reputbale book shop. Does Australia have a good on-line bookstore yet? This might be a good opportunity for some FreeBSD hackers with ecommerce skills and a few million dollars to invest in stock, or someone who already owns a bookstore. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message