Winsock vs winsock2

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Organizations like Chameleon offer a suite consisting of a Web browser, a File Transfer Protocol utility, mail utility and other utilities.

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A Winsock interface is also available for Mac OS. The Winsock program is included as a part of the operating system in Microsoft Windows. Because there is no specific standard defined for the Windows sockets API, each implementation is unique. In addition to the Microsoft winsock.dll version, there are also other versions of winsock.dll available as freeware and shareware. Operating systems (OS) like Windows 95 and Windows NT includes a data link layer named winsock.dll, which helps to make the Windows programs and the TCP/IP services work together. Windows sockets provides a standard interface between Windows TCP/IP client applications and the underlying TCP/IP protocol suite. It includes the Berkeley socket-style routines as well as a set of Windows-specific extensions. Windows sockets API (WSA) is the technical specification for Windows sockets. Techopedia Explains Windows Sockets (Winsock)

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