On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 11:58:58PM -0700, Bryan Harris wrote: > =) I was referring to a socket. I couldn't think of any place where I > might need to use one. As an example, I have a neural network system I made in Java. It accepts commands over a network socket. I then have a Perl program connect and control it over the socket. This means that I can have the program doing the hard work (the Java bit) on a remote computer, have the one I am using connect to it and tell it what to do. (This also means I can have one program controlling many instances of the java bit, which is why I did it like this). This is a place where sockets are useful. In general, they are used to allow communication between to programs. MySQL has a socket that clients connect to to use the database. X has a socket that X programs connect to to draw windows, and so on.
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