From: prc@rabbit (Pedro Ramalho Carlos)
Subject: Re: WINSOCK from Netmanage
Summary: DLL available at Microdyne.com
Organization: INESC - Lisboa, Portugal
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:57:46 GMT

Hi

 Thanks a lot for all the answers.

 The point is that the Winsock API archive site changed from vax.ftp.com
to Microdyne.com.

 There you can find the specs, Netmanage DLL and some demos in directory
pub/winsock.

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Mark Towfiq writes:
>   The official anonymous FTP site for Windows Sockets is Microdyne.COM
> (along with the companion mailing list, winsock-request@Microdyne.COM).
>  
>   Here is the README file from the Windows Sockets archive:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Via anonymous FTP to Microdyne.COM, anyone is free to access the
> directory pub/winsock, which contains files and information pertinent
> to the Windows Sockets API.
>  
>   Here are the contents of the directory:
>  
> README                  The file you are reading now.
>  
> archive/                An archive of the winsock@Microdyne.COM
>                         mailing list.  (Send subscription requests to
>                         winsock-request@Microdyne.COM.)
>  
> finger30.zip            Lee Murach's sample Finger clients, version
>                         3.0, written to version 1.1 of the Windows
>                         Sockets API.  "Finger" is written to the
>                         synchronous, "fake blocking" form of the
>                         Windows Sockets calls, and "Mfinger" written
>                         to the asynchronous, message-based ones.
>  
> ../incoming/            A directory where submissions to the archive
>                         (e.g. sample programs) should be placed.
>  
> netmanage.zip           The NetManage WINSOCK.DLL and associated
>                         files, provided by Boris Yanovsky to assist in
>                         testing.
>  
> In the subdirectories winsock-1.0 and winsock-1.1 you will find the
> specification in any of these following formats:
>  
> winsock.def             Sample Windows Sockets DLL Module Definitions
>                         File
>  
> winsock.doc             Windows Sockets API specification in WinWord
>                         2.0 format
>  
> winsock.h               Windows Sockets API header file
>  
> winsock.hlp             Windows Sockets API specification in WinHelp
>                         3.1 format (you need the 3.1 WINHELP.EXE to
>                         read it)
>  
> winsock.ps              Windows Sockets API specification in
>                         PostScript format
>  
> winsock.rtf             File used to build WINSOCK.HLP.
>  
> winsock.txt             Windows Sockets API specification in ASCII
>                         Text format
>  
> winsock.zip             A file in ZIP format suitable for a developer
>                         to program against -- it contains WINSOCK.H
>                         and WINSOCK.DEF.
> 

and Boris Yanovsky writes:
> We did post our TCP/IP stack with winsock.dll to ftp.com because they
> were 
> the winsock archive site.  Later all the winsock archives were moved to
> Mycrodyne.com and that is where you can get all the winsock stuff:
> latest 
> specs, test apps, and our TCP/IP stack.  The stuff that we posted was 
> writen to sepc ver. 1.0B, so it is going to be outdated any day now,
> since 
> the final version of winsock spec 1.1 should become available soon.  As
> soon as ver 1.1 spec is finalized we will be releasing new winsock.dll 
> which is 1.1 compliant.


Thanks again and hope this helps.

-regards
-- 

--pedro ramalho carlos (prc@inesc.pt)
--INESC (Lisboa, Portugal)