GIO - Simple socket Client - Need suggestions on which API set to use (or sample code)

["Thomas A. Moulton" <tom moulton us>]

Starting a new program and I would like some portability between Linux 
and windows (mac? others)
so I am looking at GTK3 and to be (more)portable I guess I need to 
rewrite my socket handling code (C)
since I can't use my main/select loop...

I have been looking at the APIs for almost a week and I feel like I keep 
going round and round.
GInputStream (and GOututStream), GSocket/GIOSocket or maybe GIOChannel

It makes it very hard to choose without being able to see example 
client.c code.

Anyone have a good simple client demo program that will show ONE (of the 
seemingly many) ways to do this?

tom