greg@carnivore.tamu.edu (Greg Economides) (04/18/91)
I am trying to communicate with a forked process using a DGRAM socket (AF_UNIX) on a Sun 386i (OS 4.0.2). What I really want to send through the socket is a small struct (about five float fields). I have been using the `sendto' and `read' functions which need a (char *) to send through the socket. These work fine with character strings, but do not do so well with structs. Is there a quick/clean way to translate a struct into a character stream (and then a way to get the struct back) so that it can be sent using these functions? Is there a better or more straight-forward way of doing this? I am still quite a fledgling sockets programmer. Thanks for any and all help. I will summarize the responses if there is interest. Peace, -- Greg Economides "This sentence is false" Technical Lab Coordinator Texas A&M University -- Biosystems Modelling Group Internet: greg@carnivore.tamu.edu