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to: JOHN THOMPSON
from: JAAP VAN.VEEN
date: 1997-12-07 17:35:00
subject: Windows internet applicat

John Thompson wrote on 05 Dec 1997 at 08:35 to Jaap Van.Veen:
 JT> In a message of 12-01-1900, JAAP VAN.VEEN wrote re: WINDOWS
 JT> INTERNET APPLICAT 
JV> I try to start an Windows Internet application under WIN-OS/2
JV> 3.0
JV>
JV> I finishes with the message  "Unable to make socket
JV> connection"  What could be the file I have to look for?? Jaap
 JT> Make sure the DOS_DEVICE settings from your Windows program object
 JT> includes the line:
 JT> C:\TCPIP\BIN\VDOSTCP.SYS
 JT> And that your OS/2 CONFIG.SYS includes the lines:
 JT> DEVICE=C:\TCPIP\BIN\VDOSTCP.VDD
 JT> DEVICE=C:\TCPIP\BIN\VDOSTCP.SYS
 JT> RUN=C:\TCPIP\BIN\VDOSCTL.EXE
 JT> Make sure that you have a "WINSOCK.DLL" file in your /tcpip/dos/bin
 JT> directory (use the version that comes with OS/2, *NOT* a regular
 JT> Windows version) and that the tcpip/dos/bin directory is listed
 JT> first in your DOS AUTOEXEC.BAT's PATH statement.
Done, I replaced the WINSOCK.DLL that came with the application with the one 
that was in OS/2. Now it works like a charm.
Thanks, also the others that reacted.
Jaap 
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