GNet Network Library Reference Manual

David Helder

    dhelder@umich.edu
  

This manual documents GNet, a networking library. It gives an overview of GNet, discusses examples that come with GNet, and includes detailed documentation of the GNet API.

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Table of Contents
GNet Overview
GNet for developers
Compiling programs with GNet
Other tips and tricks
GNet Examples
echoclient and echoserver
hfetch
SDR
Various test files
GNet Library Reference
GNet main module -- Main header and utility functions.
Internet address -- Internet address.
TCP -- Tcp socket (stream).
Unix -- Unix Sockets
socks -- SOCKS protocol interface.
UDP -- UDP (datagram).
Multicast -- Multicast.
IOChannel -- IOChannel utility functions
pack -- Data packing and unpacking.
MD5 -- MD5 Hash
SHA -- SHA Hash
URL -- Universal Resource Locator (e.g. http://www.gnetlibrary.org/index.html)
Connection -- TCP Connection
Server -- TCP Server