Please forgive my lack of familarity with sockets in the following 
     question.
     
     I would like to write a distributed application in which two or more 
     images communicate via sockets across a network. However, I would also 
     like to be able to run all the images of the application and have them 
     communicate via the same socket code on a machine (NT) which is not 
     networked. Is this possible? If so, how do I specify the addresses and 
     ports for the non-networked machine? If it is not possible, how can I 
     accomplish the equivalent and keep the code differences at a minimum?
     
     Thanks in advance.
     
     Jerome