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Date: 2013jan20
OS: Windows

Q.  Which library should I link my Winsock program to?

A.  These are the choices:


winsock.lib
wsock32.lib
ws2_32.lib


In my experience ws2_32.lib seems to be work on the largest number
of machines... from different versions of Windows, etc.

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