ept</tt>
might block until <em>another</em> client shows up.
</p>

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<p class=name id="bind">
master:<b>bind(</b>address, port<b>)</b>
</p>

<p class=description>
Binds a master object to <tt>address</tt> and <tt>port</tt> on the
local host.

<p class=parameters>
<tt>Address</tt> can be an IP address or a host name.
<tt>Port</tt> must be an integer number in the range [0..64K).
If <tt>address</tt>
is '<tt>*</tt>', the system binds 