Making Unix and Windows Nt Talk

By Mark Nadelson and Tom Hagan

The majority of networked systems in business today consist of Windows NT workstations on the users' desks and UNIX servers supporting the network. This book explains how to build the tools needed for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879305843
• ISBN13: 9780879305840
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: CMP Books
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Book is okay, there are alternatives to consider

I bought both books by these authors, but wouldn't recommend them both. Get this book if you aren't familiar with system programming, otherwise get the other book. They are good at going into the detail of the different concepts, their code samples are their class definitions, which seem to just be wrapper classes.Maybe it is my programming style, IMHO, if you really want to write a portable, non-GUI application on Unix and Windows/NT, get "POSIX Programmer's Guide" by Donald Lewine and a POSIX envrionment (I use Mingw32[POSIX], Tk[GUI] & GNU C/C++ on Windows/XP). "Using C on the UNIX System" is also a useful text because it has very small, complete code samples. The POSIX environment will give you a platform independant layer that doesn't require C++.

C++ Network programming book

This book is for programmers. It contains a ton of C++ code that I used to drop right into my program. To say that it is strictly for Unix to NT migration sells it way short. It contains building blocks for both OS's -- classes that wrap semapores, threads, processes, etc -- that from the outside look the same for both platforms. It then goes into how to use these building blocks in programs that communicate to programs running on other Unix or NT machines on the network.

Making Windows NT and Unix Talk

When I first picked up this book I was skeptical that a topic such as this could be covered thoroughly enough to be useful. I was pleasantly surprised. Not only did I find the chapter text easy to read and to the point, but I found the source code easy to understand as well. I also found the source code sufficiently complete to use it as a basis for my own work. I hope there is going to be a second edition.