Chapter 8 deals with network connections: mailslots, named pipes, UDP, and TCP. Each of the subdirectories contains two halves of a communicating pair of programs: a sender and receiver that can communicate over the network using a different protocol. mcip - UDP packets msip - TCP packets in a client/server relationsip (multiple connections to the server) msnp - Named pipe packets in a client/server relationship (multiple indep. clients can connect to the server) mtnp - Named pipe packets in a client/server relationship (multiple indep. clients can connect to the server and intercommunicate) ranmon - Mailslots used to implement the "Run And Notify MONitor" system sms - Simple mailslot example ssip - Simple point-to-point TCP connections ssnp - Simple point-to-point named pipe connections YOU MUST LOAD THE TCP/IP PACKAGE IN THE NETWORK APPLET OF THE CONTROL PANEL BEFORE ANY TCP/IP CODE WILL WORK. SEE THE BOOK "Windows NT Administration: From Single Systems to Heterogeneous Networks" FOR INSTRUCTIONS.