mike said:
What is a W2K compliant version of an application?
question concerns newsgroup response to my error
message:failure while initializing windows sockets while
running 2000 Professional;can't connect to internet as a
result. Help!
A W2K compatible version of the software is exactly what the term describes.
If an application that uses Winsock is written to use the 16 bit version of
Winsock it won't run on a 32 bit operating system based on NT4.
Thats because of 2 issues. Most 16 bit applications don't provide UNICODE
compatibility (which relies on a different wide character format) and 16 bit
applications are inacapable of initializing and configuring a 32-bit winsock
subsystem because it can't "talk" to it.
Not to mention that any NT based Winsock application will use Input/Output
Completion Ports to mange Socket Events. IOCP does not exist in Win9x.
If this dons't explain compatibility for you, feed your gas powered car some
diesel fuel.
