I am needing to edit this client/server echo program into a client/server talk application, to send messages back and forth between the client and server, rather than have the client echo the message only. So the output would be:
C: Hello
S: Hello
S: How are you?
C: How are you?

I am not understand really what to edit, where, why, etc.
I know I would understand it if I saw it, but any help at all would be great.
Thank you so much!

tcpserv01.c

#include    "unp.h"

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int                    listenfd, connfd;
    pid_t                childpid;
    socklen_t            clilen;
    struct sockaddr_in    cliaddr, servaddr;

    listenfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

    bzero(&servaddr, sizeof(servaddr));
    servaddr.sin_family      = AF_INET;
    servaddr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
    servaddr.sin_port        = htons(SERV_PORT);

    bind(listenfd, (SA *) &servaddr, sizeof(servaddr));

    listen(listenfd, LISTENQ);

    for ( ; ; ) {
        clilen = sizeof(cliaddr);
        connfd = accept(listenfd, (SA *) &cliaddr, &clilen);

        if ( (childpid = fork()) == 0) {    /* child process */
            close(listenfd);    /* close listening socket */
            str_echo(connfd);    /* process the request */
            exit(0);
        }
        close(connfd);            /* parent closes connected socket */
    }
}

tcpcli01.c

#include    "unp.h"

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int                    sockfd;
    struct sockaddr_in    servaddr;

    if (argc != 2)
        err_quit("usage: tcpcli <IPaddress>");

    sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

    bzero(&servaddr, sizeof(servaddr));
    servaddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    servaddr.sin_port = htons(SERV_PORT);
    inet_pton(AF_INET, argv[1], &servaddr.sin_addr);

    connect(sockfd, (SA *) &servaddr, sizeof(servaddr));

    str_cli(stdin, sockfd);        /* do it all */

    exit(0);
}

str_echo.c

#include    "unp.h"

void
str_echo(int sockfd)
{
    ssize_t        n;
    char        buf[MAXLINE];


    while ( (n = read(sockfd, buf, MAXLINE)) > 0)
        write(sockfd, buf, n);
}

str_cli.c

#include    "unp.h"

void
str_cli(FILE *fp, int sockfd)
{
    char    sendline[MAXLINE], recvline[MAXLINE];

    while (fgets(sendline, MAXLINE, fp) != NULL) {

        write(sockfd, sendline, strlen(sendline));

        if (read(sockfd, recvline, MAXLINE) == 0)
            err_quit("str_cli: server terminated prematurely");

        fputs(recvline, stdout);
    }
}

This brings up one question. Where is the server getting the responds message? Is it from some canned messages that it reads down into?

Thank you. The messages are to be read from the user on each side, to be sent to the client or server and displayed.
So I if I type Hello on the client, the server will display Hello. etc.

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