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From: "Marcel Offermans" <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:26:30 +0100
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Hello Osma,

 > >You should download "socket.library" from Aminet.. Remember that you
 > >_MUST_ place it in AMITCP:LIBS since SYS:LIBS won't work.

 > Uhhuh. socket.library should be placed in inet:libs, since that's where
 > all well written AS225/I-Net225 programs try to open it from. However,
 > once it is loaded, it doesn't matter where it was loaded from. Thus, if
 > you "loadlib" it in the network startup script, it might as well have
 > been in sys:libs.

Not completely. Most of the time, you'll find an assign which assigns INet:
to AmiTCP: which makes the above work. AmiTCP 4.2 users can simply add this
assign to the AmiTCP:db/User-Startnet script.

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