VMS Help TCPIP Services, Programming Interfaces, Sockets API, getprotoent()  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Reads the next line from the protocols database.
    Format
      #include  <netdb.h>
      struct protoent *getprotoent();

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