This information is intended for application and system programmers with experience in writing application programs on a workstation. You should also be familiar with the OS/2 operating system and know multitasking operating system concepts. It is important that you also know the C programming language.
If you are not familiar with TCP/IP concepts, see Internetworking With TCP/IP Volume I: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture , and Internetworking With TCP/IP Volume II: Implementation and Internals.