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Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 09:08:17
From: Gregory_French@brown.edu (Greg French)
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Subject: Re: What is win32s/wsock32.dll ?
In article <Cp9p0I.33x@lincoln.gpsemi.com> Colin Helliwell <helliwell_c@lincoln.gpsemi.com> writes:
>From: Colin Helliwell <helliwell_c@lincoln.gpsemi.com>
>Subject: What is win32s/wsock32.dll ?
>Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 07:33:53 GMT
>I'm fairly new to the winsock field, so forgive me if this is a dumb
>question.
>I bought an application which installed a win32s directory in
>windows/system, and in this directory is a file called wsock32.dll
>Is this a winsock 'stack' ? I think I saw somewhere that its just a 32-16
>bit interface or something - can someone confirm this for me please. How is
>it used ?
>Thanks
>
I believe it's a "wrapper" DLL that exports all the winsock functions as 32
bit calls for Win32s programs, but does nothing more than translate ("thunk")
the function down to a 16 bit call in the regular winsock.dll.
Greg