Making Unix and Windows NT Talk with CDROM [Paperback]

Mark Nadelson (Author), Tom Hagan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2000

This text explains how to build the tools required for inter-platform communication systems between two environments as a series of objects that are used to create more complex inter-platform objects. The companion disk contains C++ objects that programmers can plug into their own applications.

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About the Author

Mark Nadelson and Tom Hagan have 25 years of experience in developing within UNIX, DOS/Windows and, more recently, Windows NT systems. Their work has included the development of network software for telecommunications, digital signal processing, internet programming, and financial institutions. It is in their development of mission critical applications for financial institutions, where legacy UNIX systems are wedded to Windows NT workstations, that they have honed their skills in inter-platform communications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 481 pages
• Publisher: Publishers Group West (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879305843
• ISBN-13: 978-0879305840
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,245,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars C++ Network programming book, February 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Making Unix and Windows NT Talk with CDROM (Paperback)

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.

4.0 out of 5 stars Book is okay, there are alternatives to consider, March 12, 2002

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Bill Hope - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Unix and Windows NT Talk with CDROM (Paperback)

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++.

5.0 out of 5 stars Making Windows NT and Unix Talk, February 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Making Unix and Windows NT Talk with CDROM (Paperback)

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.