Message-Id:	<199909242120.RAA01818@delorie.com>
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Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:18:44 +0100
From:	Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	libsocket 0.7.4 Whereabouts
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libsocket 0.7.4 Whereabouts
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libsocket Copyright 1997, 1998 by Indrek Mandre
libsocket Copyright 1997-1999 by Richard Dawe

Portions of libsocket:
    Copyright 1983-1993 Regents of the University of California
    Copyright 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Copyright 1997, 1998 by the Regdos Group

libsocket is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License (the GNU LGPL).

Introduction
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libsocket is a BSD-socket library for DJGPP. It uses Windows's networking
functions to provide TCP/IP networking services to DJGPP programs.

libsocket's home page is here:

    http://libsocket.tsx.org/

If this does not work for some reason, try here:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/lsck/

Where are lsck074b.zip & lsck074s.zip?
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libsocket 0.7.4 is currently in an extended beta program. This is to
debug and fix many of the bugs in the Winsock 2 support added to this
version. Although libsocket 0.7.3 is the last non-beta, released version,
it is arguably less stable than the betas of 0.7.4.

libsocket 0.7.3 will not work with Winsock 2, which means it will not run
on Windows '98. It will also not work on Windows '95 after applying the
Winsock 2 upgrade. See the FAQ off the libsocket home page.

The latest beta of libsocket can be downloaded from the v2tk/beta/
directory of the DJGPP archive. The file name will be of the form
'ls074b<n>.zip', where <n> is the beta number.

But The Beta Releases Are Still Too Buggy For Me!
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In that case you may want to download a development version. Due to
the (seemingly) slow pace of libsocket's development, the betas
aren't released that often. A bug may have been fixed in the
development version. To download the development versions, go here:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/lsckdev/

I would greatly appreciate help with development of any form - code,
documentation, testing, whatever.

Thanks, bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/

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