What is Winsock?
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This is short for Windows Sockets API (Application Programming Interface). If you use a version of Microsoft Windows older than the "Windows 95" release, you must have a Winsock program on your hard drive. This program creates a protected socket of memory in your computer, from which it manages transactions between Windows applications and the Internet. A standard tool for accessing the Internet. It is implemented by a file named winsock.dll or wsock32.dll. It is the way a WWW browser, FTP client, email package or word processor talks to the network and ultimately to the Internet. The nomenclature is based on the Sockets applications programming interface model used in Berkeley UNIX for communications between programs. |
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