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thanks!

Posted by alan polansky on July 24, 2001 at 1:45 PM

Thanks!

> > > In the C world the call getservbyname() converts
> > > a service name into it's port number.

> I wrote a method to search the /etc/services file
> (or /etc/inet/services or c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\services).

>
> It is at
>
> http://www.dan.drydog.com/java/GetServiceByName.java

>
> This isn't a part of Java because someone apparently thought
> it's a system-dependent function.
> With all due respect, this is not a system-dependent
> function. The implementation may be (such as the location of
> the /etc/services file or whether it's a flat file or database),
> but the function can be implemented on any system.