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TRANSPORT LAYER INTERFACE

Specialty Definition: TRANSPORT LAYER INTERFACE

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Computing

Transport Layer Interface (TLI, or "Transport Level Interface") A protocol-independent interface for accessing network facilities, modelled after the ISO transport layer (level 4), that first appeared in Unix SVR3. TLI is defined by SVID as transport mechanism for networking interfaces, in preference to sockets, which are biased towards IP and friends. A disavantage is that a process cannot use read/write directly, but has to use backends using stdin and stdout to communicate with the network connection. TLI is implemented in SVR4 using the STREAMS interface. It adds no new system calls, just a library, libnsl_s.a. The major functions are t_open, t_bind, t_connect, t_listen, t_accept, t_snd, t_rcv, read, write. According to the Solaris t_open man page, XTI (X/OPEN Transport Interface) evolved from TLI, and supports the TLI API for compatibility, with some variations on semantics. (1999-06-10). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Crosswords: TRANSPORT LAYER INTERFACE

Specialty definitions using "TRANSPORT LAYER INTERFACE": TL/I, TLI, Transport Level Interface. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: TRANSPORT LAYER INTERFACE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 52 41 4E 53 50 4F 52 54      4C 41 59 45 52      49 4E 54 45 52 46 41 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01010010 01000001 01001110 01010011 01010000 01001111 01010010 01010100 00100000 01001100 01000001 01011001 01000101 01010010 00100000 01001001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 01000110 01000001 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0052 0041 004E 0053 0050 004F 0052 0054      004C 0041 0059 0045 0052      0049 004E 0054 0045 0052 0046 0041 0043 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

545235485350495254246355939522434854395240353739

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