c and webservices?

[h]

Hi Keith,

To be perhaps a bit clearer:

Thank you for the articulation.

It should be possible to write networking code that's not 100%
portable C, but that's probably as portable as you need it to be. The
POSIX standard, though it's off-topic here, provides facilities for
networking and a number of other operating system interfaces. If your
code is expected to run only on POSIX-compliant systems, you can use
the POSIX-defined interfaces and your program will still be "portable
enough". The comp.unix.programmer newsgroup is probably the best
place to ask about this.

Thanks again for so much information. I will look into POSIX, I really
like the idea.

take care,

H