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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jallard
- From: jallard@microsoft.com (James 'J' Allard)
- Subject: Re: Winsock available?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.211400.28722@microsoft.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 21:14:00 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <dhess.724384305@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <dhess.724384305@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess) writes:
- >Is Winsock available as a DLL anywhere, or is it just (as yet) an API?
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- Windows Sockets is an API specification. A TCP/IP vendor implements the API
- support via a DLL named "winsock.dll" with characteristics specified in the
- document. Many vendors are planning support of the Windows Sockets API with
- their TCP/IP implementations. Since I have seen postings from most of these
- vendors on this group, I will leave it to them to respond with availability
- information for their implementation.
-
- Microsoft will offer Windows Sockets support in the "TCP/IP for Windows for
- Workgroups" package released early next year. Additionally, both 16- and
- 32-bit Windows Sockets support will be available in Windows NT.
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