From: Richard Dawe <rich AT tudor21 DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: wsock2/32 and libsock074b3
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 02:32:54 +0000
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Hello.

ir0nm0nk3y AT earthlink DOT net wrote:
> It runs fine on the Win95 box (wsock.dll)
> but, when I move it over to my laptop running
> Win98 with wsock2 I get failures on my socket calls.  According to the
> libsock FAQ post 074 beta 1 versions work with
> wsock2.

You need to install a helper device driver to allow libsocket to work
under Winsock 2. If you look in the redist/ directory (probably called
contrib/ls074b3/redist/), you should see a file called sock.vxd. Copy this
file into your windows system directory, like so:

copy sock.vxd c:\windows\system

Obviously, change 'c:\windows' in the second path to the actual Windows
directory name.

The next beta version should have a nice installer program. If you'd
rather use that, e-mail me and I'll send it to you.

Please note that there are a couple of major flaws in the Winsock 2
interface of libsocket due to sock.vxd - connections are always forcibly
closed (via a TCP packet with the RST flag set), so use of the FTP
protocol is impossible.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Richard Dawe
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