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Library Reference (~330K HTML!)

Copyright

libsocket Copyright 1997, 1998 by Indrek Mandre
libsocket Copyright 1997, 1998 by Richard Dawe
Portions of libsocket Copyright 1997, 1998 by the Regdos Group

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

Introduction

libsocket is a BSD-socket library for DJGPP. It uses Windows's networking functions to provide TCP/IP networking services to DJGPP programs. For more detail, please see question 1.1 of the FAQ.

libsocket currently does not work with Winsock 2! This means it will not work under Windows '98.

Unfortunately, I cannot test libsocket as extensively as I would like, as I do not have access to all of the networking environments that the code works with. Hence, it is very much a work in progress. Any feedback about when it works or doesn't would be appreciated.

Please read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and the Changelog. This may save you some time later when installing or using libsocket. You may also like to browse the Library Reference (~330K HTML page of all relevant man pages).

Request for Feedback and Information

If there are any features you'd like in libsocket, or you have any comments about the library, the documentation or anything to do with libsocket, please mail me, Richard Dawe, and I'll try and help.

Also, if anyone has any information about using Winsock 2 from a DOS box, then I'd be very grateful to hear how. The lack of Winsock 2 support is currently the largest problem facing libsocket.


The layout of this page is by Indrek Mandre, and the content is by Richard Dawe.


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