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Re: Is LanWorkPlace Winsock 1.1 compliant?

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From: Mark Anacker
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 00:00
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In article <1995Aug2.111800.19493@bradford.ac.uk>, A.L.Radtke@bradford.ac.uk 
says...
>
>marka@halcyon.com (Mark Anacker) writes:
>>In article <3vlbe8$o89@r25.cae.ge02.honeywell.de>, epp@ge02.honeywell.de 
>>says...
>>>In article <3v8rog$f47@data.interserv.net>, marka@halcyon.com says...
>>>>There seems to be a problem with configuring a host name for the local PC -
	:
>Well; you could tell all your software that your PCs IP number is
>127.0.0.1 ! I've done that to get around very stupid software

This of course, fails miserably when your application has to send it's own IP
address in the data as a verification mechanism.  Or if you need it for
some other reason... the loopback address just isn't going to cut it.

Bad Novell! Bad Novell! <swats the programmer on the nose with a rolled-up
newspaper>
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From: marka@halcyon.com (Mark Anacker)
Subject: Re: Is LanWorkPlace Winsock 1.1 compliant?
Date: 1995/08/02
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