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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 23:43:20 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: Wojciech =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ga=B3=B1zka?= 
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Subject: Re: libsocket and sock.vxd - anyone ?
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Hello.

Wojciech Gałązka wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience with sock.vxd to share?
> I checked the sources and the buglist and I'm going to take care of the
> coda sock.vxd part of the libsocket library. I would be interested if
> anyone else has been dong anything with sock.vxd. so that we could
> collaborate

Most of my knowledge is contained in the Coda SOCK.VXD
Pseudo-documentation:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/dl/csockvxd.htm

and the libsocket source code.

I did upload some modified SOCK.VXD sources to the dossock site. I tried
to fix a few of the problems, but did not have much success. I made some
modifications to the code to allow the same headers to be used in the VxD
or software using the VxD. Anyhow the dossock site is here, with a link to
the modified SOCK.VXD sources:

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

If you have any specific questions about SOCK.VXD, I can try to answer
them.

> I'm not fond of the wsock2.vxd approach and the discussion of 'patching'
> the binary file ... well I cannot afford this

Yes, I agree, this does not seem like a very user-friendly solution.
Distributing a modified version of WSOCK2.VXD is probably illegal.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ 

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