VMS Help  —  TCPIP Services, Programming Interfaces, Socket API Functions, getprotobyname()  Description
    This function returns a pointer to a protoent structure
    containing data from the protocols table. For information about
    the protoent structure, refer to protoent Structure.
    All information is contained in a static area, so it must be
    copied to be saved.
    Related Functions
    See also getprotoent() and getprotobynumber().
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