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"HP Sockets" is the short form for the product called "Software Integration Sockets". I view it as a method of pasting together applications that don't know about each other, potentially across machines in a network. As such, you can describe (via a meta language) the data structures of two programs (perhaps binary, perhaps ASCII (e.g.: from a report generator), and it will generate conversion code. It does data conversion (e.g., ascii to binary or packed decimal) and understands the data types/structures used by FORTRAN, COBOL, C, & Pascal. It also handles asynchronous messaging between machines, if necessary.

--StanSieler?

-- ChrisBartram - 09 Jun 2006



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