Socket Documentation
Chris Johns
cjohns at cybertec.com.au
Fri May 16 01:58:20 UTC 2003
Paul Whitfield wrote:
>
> We are having to support some developers here who lack "socket savvy".
> I was wondering if anyone had a good recommendation for a source
> of documentation for the BSD Sockets, i.e. a good place to get
> man pages or texinfo files for the version of BSD sockets used in
> RTEMS.
>
> I don't need pointers to tutorials, just a source to put together
> man pages / a pdf of the sockets calls.
>
> We are using a cygwin hosted environment which sadly lacks
> man pages for sockets, and the users we are supporting
> do not have access to a linux or bsd box.
>
I am no expert with this but on Linux I can convert a Linux man page to PDF with:
$ man -t socket | ps2pdf - > socket.pdf
For the man pages for the RTEMS networking stack I suggest you obtain the FreeBSD man
pages (http://www.freebsd.org/) and then try the -M option of man to select a
different man page base.
To find the list of man pages referenced check out the man option -w (again on
Linux). Mayeb this may help create a list.
A simple trick with postscript is to append separate ps files together then convert
to resulting file to PDF. This creates a single PDF (I used this when receiving faxes
:-)).
If you can create a script to do this I am sure it would be a welcome part of the
RTEMS documentation package.
--
Chris Johns, cjohns at cybertec.com.au
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