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In article <2p8jrp$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Brian Safford) writes:

>Once upon a time I noticed someone had announced the availability of a
>Visual Basic API for Winsock. Would someone be so kind and tell me if it
>still exists and where I can find it?

(Let's try this again...)

FTP to the site ftp.cica.indiana.edu and look in /pub/pc/win3/programr/vbasic
for the file VBWSK03A.ZIP. Haven't tried it myself, though. Good luck!


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Subject: Micorosoft TCP/IP and ODI drivers

Will the new Microsoft TCP/IP beta run over ODI drivers or do you have to
install the peer to peer stuff?

I would like to know as I use WFW 3.11 on a Novell network. This is the only
network support I use as I am the only person running WFW. I don't want to run
both ODI and the WFW stuff as I am very short of low memory .... novell,
CD-ROM, soundcard, doublespace, etc. are causing server RAM cram.

If it does not now run over ODI drivers ... will it do so in the future?

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Subject: Visual Basic API

Once upon a time I noticed someone had announced the availability of a
Visual Basic API for Winsock. Would someone be so kind and tell me if it
still exists and where I can find it?

Thanks in advance,
Brian Safford

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From: [e-mail] (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
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Subject: Re: Problems with Winsock with Novells Workplace for Dos

Hello,

[e-mail] (Nicholas W. Taylor) writes:

>In article <2p47on$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Trevor J. Harris) writes:

>>I have been trying to use the Novell TCP/IP transport for DOS supplied
>>with Deskview/X with winsock. I am using odipkt and winpkt with the 3com
>>509 network card. All this seems to load OK with no error messages and
>>tcpman starts ok. When I try to use any windows application like wintel
>>I get an ARP timeout. Winsock works OK with slip and telnet works with
>>DV/X. I have seen some mention of problems with the 3c509.

Is my assumption correct that you use a packet driver based winsock, e.g.
the Trumpet WS ?

In thiks case this will not run. Get yourself the Winsock for Lan Workplace
from sjf-lwp.novell.com. Works nice here.

>>By the way Novell supply WLIBSOCK.DLL. Is this 1.1 complient and can it
>>be used instead of winsock.

No. You need a special Winsock.dll for Lan Workplace. It's available per ftp.

>I just installed Trumpet's WinSock myself, and had the exact same problem.
>Solution?  I got the shareware ODIPKT30.COM from hsdndev.harvard.edu and
>installed it.  It made my connects a _lot_ faster.  Then I changed every
>explicit 255.255.255.255 IP number address to its corresponding a.b.c.d name
>address.  It seems Trumpet looks up names by alpha-name only in either host
>files or name servers.

Hm...but you don't run LWP simultaenously, do you ? In this case one of them
would fail to work.

BTW - is that ODIPKT30 already official ?  I seem to remember a kind of
beta test ...

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr

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Subject: SLIP and outside world

I've been using Winsock at the University of Manitoba over the winter and it
has worked great.  I am now at home for the summer and am using SLIP for the
first time.  I have no problem connecting and using Eudora or Trumpet News
Reader, or do I have a problem using Gopher or FTPing within the
University.  The problem is that I can't seem to get outside the University.
Every time I try all I get is a Socket Time Out or an Unable to Connect
message.  Any ideas would be welcomed.



Daniel M. Bezte,  Masters Student/Climatology
Dept. of Geography, U of Manitoba
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Subject: WinFSP HELP!!!!!

I am trying to run winfsp v 1.2.  Every time, no matter what sock I run, or
what I do to my win.ini/system.ini files, it hangs my mouse every time.  I do
connect via SLIP (using the internal dialer in Winsock) but I cnnot see that
as a problem as I know someone else who has run the program without fail, with
a near identical setup.

  Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this????



Cheers...Ken
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Subject: Re: News in Mosaic

[e-mail] (Paul Shames) writes:

>My question is simple: How do I subscribe/read  newsgroups in Mosaic?

>I noticed that there is a line in the init file for a news server, but
>I don't see any commands that say anything about news groups, am I missing
>something obvious or is it a secret that only people with a secret encoder
>ring can learn? ;-)

Once you've set Mosaic up with a news server, you just need to open an
appropriate URL, e.g., news:alt.winsock.

This has worked just fine for me in 2.02a, but crashes in 2.03a.  Your
mileage may vary.

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Subject: Re: netbios over tcpip and ipx

In article <[e-mail]>
           [e-mail] "Joel Hammond" writes:

> Everyone on my wfw 3.11 workgroup gets the following error as they start
> windows:  "The following error occurred while loading protocol 1.  Error 5123:
>  The computer name you specified is already in use on the network.  Choose the
> network icon in the control panel to specify a different name."
>

I had a similar problem with the same error message running Netbeui only
when I upgraded an NT workstation to NTAS.  Changing W4WG network startup
parameters from a workgroup to domain in network startup and making the
workgroup name the same as the domain name on each workstation solved the
problem for me.

If it's any help.....

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Subject: Re: Cello vs Mosaic

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Buford Terrell) writes:

>Cello seems to be leaner and meaner and use fewer fat graphics.  These are
>things that are important to those of us who are on slower, dial-up
>connections.  At 14.4, when I fire up Mosaic, i can put out the cat, fix a pot

The web client you use shouldn't affect the speed a home page loads. After
all, you are still transferring the same amount of data over the dial-up line.
If anything, Mosaic 2.0a4 should be faster in rendering the inline graphics
now that it is a 32-bit application. And it does do that quicker on this
machine and yes, I'm coming in on a 14.4 Kbps dial-up too.

One thing that I like Mosaic over Cello is Mosaic's standard use of text-
based INI file. I can edit it with a text editor if I like, which I cannot
with Cello's (non-text-based, at least as of version 1.0). Also, Mosaic's
built-in menu editor is great.

All the features of HTTP+ implementation aren't available with Cello either
(again, as of version 1.0).

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Subject: Re: Winsock

[e-mail] (Doug Evans) writes:
>I have been led to believe that Winsock can be used with a dialup
>account, such as I have with Netcom. For those that don't know what that
>is, but would like to answer, it just means that I dial directly into a
>Cshell.

I'm not familiar with Netcom.  However, if by "dial directly into a
Cshell." you mean that you dial up to a modem, which is connnected to a
termserver, which is connected to a unix box, I highly doubted.  But if
your account can support SLIP, then you should be good to go.  BTW, how
do you ftp files?  Do you ftp it to your account, THEN d/l via
x/y/zmodem?  Or do you ftp it directly to your harddisk?


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Subject: WSMTPSrv problem

    I downloaded the SMTP daemon WSMTPD 1.61, and it seemed easy
enough to install, but everytime I try sending mail to my hostname,
the daemon gives a GPF (at 0001:3463).  I have tons of other Winsock
software (both clients and servers), and have no problems otherwise
(so my Winsock setup shouldn't be at fault here).

    Any ideas?

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Subject: Trumpet and plain Windows 3.1

I use trumpet on plain Windows.
It works very well. The only drivers
I have are in my autoexec.bat

3c5x9.com  0x60       (3com etherlink III driver)
Winpkt 0x60              ( Windows packet driver)

Make sure that Trumpet is on the path statement
and it runs fine with all winsock programs I've tried.

Gil
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Subject: Mosaic 20a.4

Dump Memory Blocks=yes
Dump Memory Blocks=yes
Dump Memory Blocks=yes

Watch her run!

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Subject: NCSA WinMosaic--What is HTTP?

Please help me, I have everything working alright except for this:
When I try to use Mosaic, the program seems to invoke a command named
http, I have no such program, where can I get this (Please e-mail me
if you know) thanks a bunch,

Busse.
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Steve Sykes) writes:

>Is anyone aware of a GOOD news reader that runs over winsock?

By GOOD, I assume you mean, "with the functionality of trn, tin, or nn."

There isn't any such animal, at the current time.

I think lots of folks are underestimating the enormous amount of work that
producing a Windows equivalent of trn or tin involves.

>I'm using trumpet 1.0 rev A and, for the money, I can't complain.  But it has
>it's limitations (missing news groups, etc).

You can get all the news groups by deleting your news.grp file then connecting
to your news server.  This works around a bug in the current code.

>If the trumpet news reader is still the best, what's the latest release and
>where do I get it?

V1.0a is the latest public release.  1.0b is in final beta stages, and has
threading, better followup and posting features, and more.  But it still is a
long way from trn or tin.  IMHO, WinVN, the only other contender, has an even
longer way to go.

+ Michael

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Subject: Trumpet winsock error

I'm running Trumpet winsock.  Whenever I'm using the WS-Gopher and
eventually exit the program and the Trumpet program I see line after
line of  "Error: WSAENOTSOCK (1)".  There appears to be a line for
each gopher I have accessed.  While I have not used WS-Gopher
extensively, thus far the error has not effected use of the gopher.  I
should note that I also use HGopher and WS-FTP programs and have not
seen any winsock errors with these two programs.

Does anyone know what the error means and what its implications are?

(If you post a response, please also send one to me via email.
Currently I have limited, dial-in News service)

Thanks.   -- Bob Bocher  [e-mail]