Re: WinSock & dll wrappers

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>I think I read somewhere that MS was attempting to mirror Berkeley
>sockets in WinSock, so Unix developers can port to Windows with little
>difficulty... if that really happened, who knows ;)


That's one of the main purposes of WinSock, to maintain the sockets
concept/command structure from BSD to make porting easier, and although they
did that pretty successfully, it's still almost impossible to port UNIX
utilities to Windows (thank GOD for ATM).

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