Programmer's Guide to Communications

Table of Contents

Index

Chapter 2: Communications Programming with CCI

• 2.1 Overview
• 2.2 CCI Functions
• 2.3 The CCI Call Interface
  • 2.3.1 Statically Linked Function Names
  • 2.3.2 Server Handles and Session Identifiers
  • 2.3.3 Synchronous and Asynchronous Calls
  • 2.3.4 Timeout Handling
  • 2.3.5 Tracing and Debugging
    • 2.3.5.1 CCITRACE Environment Variable
    • 2.3.5.2 The CCI-Trace control-buffer Parameter
  • 2.3.6 CCI Function Termination
• 2.4 Designing Client/Server Applications
  • 2.4.1 Program Segmentation
    • 2.4.1.1 Data Transfer
    • 2.4.1.2 System Control
    • 2.4.1.3 Overall Control Area
• 2.5 Setting up a Server and Client
• 2.6 Multi-Protocol Applications
• 2.7 Example Program