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- From: prc@rabbit (Pedro Ramalho Carlos)
- Subject: Re: WINSOCK from Netmanage
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.005746.10600@inesc.pt>
- Summary: DLL available at Microdyne.com
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- Organization: INESC - Lisboa, Portugal
- References: <1992Dec15.144810.9062@inesc.pt>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:57:46 GMT
- Lines: 92
-
- Hi
-
- Thanks a lot for all the answers.
-
- The point is that the Winsock API archive site changed from vax.ftp.com
- to Microdyne.com.
-
- There you can find the specs, Netmanage DLL and some demos in directory
- pub/winsock.
-
- ----------
- Mark Towfiq writes:
- > The official anonymous FTP site for Windows Sockets is Microdyne.COM
- > (along with the companion mailing list, winsock-request@Microdyne.COM).
- >
- > Here is the README file from the Windows Sockets archive:
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Via anonymous FTP to Microdyne.COM, anyone is free to access the
- > directory pub/winsock, which contains files and information pertinent
- > to the Windows Sockets API.
- >
- > Here are the contents of the directory:
- >
- > README The file you are reading now.
- >
- > archive/ An archive of the winsock@Microdyne.COM
- > mailing list. (Send subscription requests to
- > winsock-request@Microdyne.COM.)
- >
- > finger30.zip Lee Murach's sample Finger clients, version
- > 3.0, written to version 1.1 of the Windows
- > Sockets API. "Finger" is written to the
- > synchronous, "fake blocking" form of the
- > Windows Sockets calls, and "Mfinger" written
- > to the asynchronous, message-based ones.
- >
- > ../incoming/ A directory where submissions to the archive
- > (e.g. sample programs) should be placed.
- >
- > netmanage.zip The NetManage WINSOCK.DLL and associated
- > files, provided by Boris Yanovsky to assist in
- > testing.
- >
- > In the subdirectories winsock-1.0 and winsock-1.1 you will find the
- > specification in any of these following formats:
- >
- > winsock.def Sample Windows Sockets DLL Module Definitions
- > File
- >
- > winsock.doc Windows Sockets API specification in WinWord
- > 2.0 format
- >
- > winsock.h Windows Sockets API header file
- >
- > winsock.hlp Windows Sockets API specification in WinHelp
- > 3.1 format (you need the 3.1 WINHELP.EXE to
- > read it)
- >
- > winsock.ps Windows Sockets API specification in
- > PostScript format
- >
- > winsock.rtf File used to build WINSOCK.HLP.
- >
- > winsock.txt Windows Sockets API specification in ASCII
- > Text format
- >
- > winsock.zip A file in ZIP format suitable for a developer
- > to program against -- it contains WINSOCK.H
- > and WINSOCK.DEF.
- >
-
- and Boris Yanovsky writes:
- > We did post our TCP/IP stack with winsock.dll to ftp.com because they
- > were
- > the winsock archive site. Later all the winsock archives were moved to
- > Mycrodyne.com and that is where you can get all the winsock stuff:
- > latest
- > specs, test apps, and our TCP/IP stack. The stuff that we posted was
- > writen to sepc ver. 1.0B, so it is going to be outdated any day now,
- > since
- > the final version of winsock spec 1.1 should become available soon. As
- > soon as ver 1.1 spec is finalized we will be releasing new winsock.dll
- > which is 1.1 compliant.
-
-
- Thanks again and hope this helps.
-
- -regards
- --
-
- --pedro ramalho carlos (prc@inesc.pt)
- --INESC (Lisboa, Portugal)
-