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- From: evrwrite@powergrid.electriciti.com (Ed Redondo)
- Newsgroups: alt.winsock,alt.winsock.trumpet,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 16 bit vs 32 bit winsock
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 96 18:49:48 GMT
- Organization: ElectriCiti, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4k3q0c$1sc2_003@cs1.electriciti.com>
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- In article <315bcd51.5996084@news.iprolink.ch>, aaronw@wam.umd.edu (Aaron
- Weintraub) wrote:
- >> >2) If you are using trumpet for windows 95, then the called gets
- >> >handled right there. If it were a 32 bit winsock app, the call would
- >> >get thunked down.
- >> >
- >> >I may be totally wrong..
- >> >Aaron
- >>
- >> Hi Aaron,
- >>
- >> As I understand it, you're correct. With a true 32-bit stack such as
- Windows
- >> 95 Dialup Networking, winsock.dll acts as a thunking layer for 16-bit
- >> winsock apps and redirects calls to wsock32.dll, where the real guts
- are.
- >>
- >> Trumpet 95 is exactly the opposite - the guts are in winsock.dll, and
- >> wsock32.dll is the thunking layer. Calls from 32-bit winsock apps are
- thunked
- >> _down_ from 32-bit to 16-bit, much like using a win32 app on a Windows
- 3.x
- >> system with win32s installed.
- >>
- >> Yet another reason not to use Trumpet if you're using Windows 95!
- >>
- >> - Mike
-
- According to the installation instructions for Trumpet's 32bit Winsock you
- are suppose to rename or remove Win95's WINSOCK.DLL & WINSOCK32.DLL and use
- only Trumpet's 32bit WINSOCK.DLL. So what's all this 'trunking' business?
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