Network Communications is one of the hottest programming topics today. Whether you need to send an email message to an SMTP server on your Intranet, or transfer a file from a remote Internet server halfway around the world, PowerBASIC can handle your network communications requirements.
Networks typically consist of many computers, all with a number of different hardware architectures and operating systems. Your local area network might have machines running Windows, Linux, DOS, OS/2, or Mac OS. Your network may use IPX, ATM, or some other transmission protocol for sending data packets from one computer to the next. The architects of the Internet needed a transmission protocol that could be used on any platform.
See Also
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
An ECHO client and server using TCP