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  • From: Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] RE: FreeTDS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 37
  • Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 16:24:03 -0000

Il lun, 2003-09-08 alle 18:13, David Nsengiyumva ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> I am just wondering...In the documentation for FreeTDS it says (x1025.htm
> file) that among the combinations of FreeTDS Clients and Servers that works
> an Intel/Win2000 Client and an Intel/Windows NT 4.0 server works but I am
> just wondering (or maybe I don't really understand...),I've checked the
> source code for the tds lib and it seems that it uses BSD stream sockets
> over TCP/IP and I think one has to use Windows socket libraries (ws2_32.lib
> or winsock32.lib or whatever...) to get sockets work on Windows!!! So how
> can FreeTDS be working with a Win2000 Client???
>
> Thanx
>
> David
>

Simply cause winsocket are an extension to BSD socket. socket, connect,
select, bind, recv, send and many others function behave like BSD
socket.
If you check win32 directory you will note winsocket initialization.
I don't know what environment they use for win2000. Perhaps they used
cygwin.

freddy77






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