txt: ## dist_zef-lizmat-Net-protoent.md
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  # NAME
  
  Raku port of Perl's Net::protoent module
  
  # SYNOPSIS
  
  ```
  use Net::protoent;
  my $p = getprotobyname('tcp') || die "no proto";
  printf "proto for %s is %d, aliases are %s\n",
     $p.name, $p.proto, "$p.aliases()";
   
  use Net::protoent qw(:FIELDS);
  getprotobyname('tcp')         || die "no proto";
  print "proto for $p_name is $p_proto, aliases are @p_aliases\n";
  
  ```
  
  # DESCRIPTION
  
  This module tries to mimic the behaviour of Perl's `Net::protoent` module as closely as possible in the Raku Programming Language.
  
  This module's exports `getprotobyname`, `getprotobynumber`, and `getprotoent` functions that return `Netr::protoent` objects. This object has methods that return the similarly named structure field name from the C's protoent structure from netdb.h, stripped of their leading "p\_" parts, namely name, aliases, and proto.
  
  You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag. Access these fields as variables named with a preceding p\_ in front their method names. Thus, $proto\_obj.name corresponds to $p\_name if you import the fields.
  
  The `getproto` function is a simple front-end that forwards a numeric argument to `getprotobynumber` and the rest to `getprotobyname`.
  
  # PORTING CAVEATS
  
  This module depends on the availability of POSIX semantics. This is generally not available on Windows, so this module will probably not work on Windows.
  
  # AUTHOR
  
  Elizabeth Mattijsen [liz@raku.rocks](mailto:liz@raku.rocks)
  
  Source can be located at: <https://github.com/lizmat/Net-protoent> . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.
  
  # COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
  
  Copyright 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Elizabeth Mattijsen
  
  Re-imagined from Perl as part of the CPAN Butterfly Plan.
  
  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.
  