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Windows Sockets 2

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Pointers

All pointers used by applications with Windows Sockets should be FAR, although this is only relevant to 16-bit applications and meaningless in a 32-bit. To facilitate this, data type definitions such as LPHOSTENT are provided.

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hostent
Porting Socket Applications to Winsock
Winsock Programming Considerations

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