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<H1>OpenBeOS Network Kit: The Shared Libraries</H1>
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<LI><A name="libnet">
<H2>The libnet.so shared library</H2>
<I>Location</I>: <CODE>src/kits/network/libnet</CODE>
<P>This shared library is the way BeOS R5 provide the sockets POSIX/BSD API to apps. Being
binary compatible with R5 make this library implementation tedious.</P>
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<H2>The libnetapi.so shared library</H2>
<I>Location</I>: <CODE>src/kits/network/libnetapi</CODE>
<P>This shared library contains thin C++ classes wrapping the C sockets POSIX/BSD API into
these BNet* classes we're used under BeOS: look at them in your <A href="file:///boot/beos/documentation/Be%20Book/The%20Network%20Kit/index.html">
BeBook</A></P>
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<H6>Philippe Houdoin, May 17th, 2003</H6>
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