Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:55:51 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: John Sabean <docmani AT eng DOT umd DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: TCP library installation instructions (winsock?)
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On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, John Sabean wrote:

> I looked for the answer to this question about a month or two ago and the
> answer I got was 'no'. It seems like it would be possible. After all,
> even in Win95, the ftp client is a command line DOS executable that
> interfaces with Winsock. However, as far as I know, Microsoft is 
> holding on to this particular information. If anyone else finds out,
> please let me know.

The Cygnus GNU-Win32 compiler has a libsocket.a which I think interfaces
with Winsock (since the executables produced with this compiler are Win32
executables). I haven't tested though if the sockets functionality is
there in GNU-Win32 (at least the version I have) because I don't use
Win32. But, it might be helpful to take a look at the source code for
libsocket.a (since it's GPL'ed) and start from there.

Cheers.