# README,v 1.1 1995/05/18 18:28:16 seth Exp

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esos is the export version of SOS's general purpose utility library.

As a quick glance will show, it a mixture of hopefully useful routines
from the trivial (get IP address by hostname or IP address) to the
complex (n half-channels multi-buffering non-blocking data relay)

The major reason for its release is the co-release of Freestone and
bdttcp (and soon, other products) which all need esos functions.

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The major drawbacks are:

1:	We don't have manual pages describing them

2:	Some of the functions, notably the ones in
	util.c, desperately need to be re-engineered
	with a better model (the worst parts of util.c
	have gone away with the encryption links,
	but it still is ugly).

3:	We don't have manual pages describing them
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The major features are:

1:	It has some really useful stuff in it, if you can
	only find it and figure out how to use it.

2:	The price is right.
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Compilation instructions:

1:	`make`


Other targets include `make depend` `make install` etc...
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Problem resolution:

1:	Use the Source, Luke.


If you need to port this to a new platform, try to minimize your
changes and try *very* hard to make the changes to sos.mk and
unix_decl.h
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Locations:

esos should be available from ftp://ftp.soscorp.com/pub/sos/lib/esos-*.tar.gz

Mail about esos should be directed to sosutil@majordomo.soscorp.com.

If you wish to discuss this and other SOS Utilities, send mail to
sosutil-request@majordomo.soscorp.com.
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For further information about SOS Corporation, please contact:

<sos-info@soscorp.com>

+1 800 SOS UNIX

SOS Corporation
461 5th Ave; 16th floor
New York, NY 10017
