Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From: rd5718 AT irix DOT bris DOT ac DOT uk (Rich Dawe)
Subject: Re: DJGPP+Winsock on WinNT
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:08:59 GMT
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Jeff Bachtel (sebastion AT irelandmail DOT com) wrote:
: Hi, has anyone here tried using the winsock library for djgpp (its not new,
: but I forget its name) with un*x daemon source code to produce daemons
: for winnt?

	Hi. I did a bit of testing with libsocket 0.5 on WinNT and it
didn't appear to work. I don't think WinNT uses a VxD for Winsock, so the
method of using a DOS Interrupt to access it doesn't work. It also doesn't
support long filenames, and I think this breaks libsocket too. I haven't
tried the Wsock C++ library, so I can't comment on that, but I think it
would suffer from the same problem.

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