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> 
> I am attempting to use the tcp/ip dll from watcom C/386 9.0 under OS/2 2.0, and
> have run into a bit of a problem. After adding the __cdecl __far16 combination
> to the prototypes in the *.h files, I can get such things as sock_init() and
> socket to work and return values, consistant with what they should. However I
> can't get the gethostbyname() function to return a decent valid pointer to a
> bloick of memory (ie the host entry). I have it declared as
> 
> struct hostent * __cdecl __far16 gethostbyname(char hostname[]);
> 
> and am declaring a ptr in the program as
> 
> struct hostent *host;
> 
> and doing 
> 
>  host=gethostbyname("sol.cs.waikato.ac.nz");
> 
> but the program dies trying to access the returned block with access
> violations. (The ptr returned is 0x0a4277bc if that helps). The executable is
> being linked with tcpipdll.lib (From the 1.2.1 programming toolkit).
> 
> I thought the thunking layers were supposed to provide access to 16-bit dll's?
> Or am I doing something wrong? Should I re-create the .lib file using wlib? Or
> should this work with the microsucks .lib file in the kit?
> 
> Or is there something else I am doing wrong?
> 
> TIA.
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|  Hamish Marson   <h.marson@waikato.ac.nz>                             OS/2 |
|  Programmer (n/5), School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences           | 
|  University of Waikato,                                                    |
|  Hamilton, New Zealand.                                                    |
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