I would say the other name of socket programming is network programming. The socket modules will act as a interface to deal with other machines, such as FTP, telnet, smtp, pop, etc. I would recommand Network Programming with Perl, by Addison Weskey, but that's a book, not a site =)
----- Original Message ----- From: "john tarn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:09 AM Subject: silly question > i am still a novice in perl so forgive me for this simple question. > what is socket programming? what do sockets do? is there a site > that can explain them to me? thanks > > john > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
