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264 Chapter 9 IPX configuration and support
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Using multiple 16-bit Winsocks
Using multiple versions of Winsock in a 16-bit environment can be frustrating
because an application looks for the Winsock in memory first, which requires the
user to close each application before opening another. If you decide to use a 16-bit
Winsock, do the following:
1 Place the appropriate winsock.dll in each application directory. For example,
in Netscape, place the winsock.dll that had an Instant Internet version number
as the time stamp in the same directory as the netscape.exe file and leave your
other winsock.dll in the Windows directory or wherever it previously resided.
2
Close each application before you open another.
Using multiple 32-bit Winsocks
Using multiple versions of Winsock in a 32-bit environment allows you to have
more than one loaded into memory at a time. If you want to use the Microsoft
wsock32.dll file for some applications and the Instant Internet file for others, then
you need to make sure that the appropriate wsock32.dll file is in the appropriate
application directory.
If you have many applications that use the Microsoft wsock32.dll file and only a
few that use the Instant Internet file, you should leave the Microsoft file in the
windows/system directory and relocate the Instant Internet wsock32.dll file. If the
opposite is true, then leave the Instant Internet file in the windows\system
directory and move the Microsoft file.
Note: Some proprietary applications look in the windows\system
directory first rather than their own application directory.