Index of /vol_400/449_01/

Nullsock, by Jean-Michel Mercier (Paris, France), is a Winsock simulator which allows you to run Winsock applications offline. This is most useful for forcing a web browser to work on offline copies of HTML files that you have downloaded. You might want to do this because you're "on the road" with a portable computer but without a immediate Internet connection or perhaps to avoid paying online charges to view material you've already downloaded several times. Nullsock works by loading a dummy WINSOCK.DLL with its entry points replaced by stubs. You can either run Nullsock directly or use Nullsock to spawn the desired application. Nullsock was designed to work with Windows 3.11 and has been tested with Netscape and AIR Mosaic. It will work with Windows 95, but only when running 16-bit Winsock applications. Nullsock includes complete C source and compiles with Borland C. Nullsock version 1.0 is available on CUG CD-ROM as volume #449.