RE: [TCLCORE] why do we bother doing LoadLibrary on wsock32.dll?

[Jeff H. <jeffh@ActiveState.com>]

> je...@ac... said:
> > I do not think that you can run a Windows machine without networking =

> > installed anymore, even if you never connect the machine to a =
network.
>=20
> I seem to recall, however, that the DLLMain of wsock32.dll=20
> fails on 95/98/98SE/Me if it can't find a network adapter at=20
> all.  So you can't load the library at all if you haven't got=20
> a network interface.

After worming around MSDN, I'm not sure that this is the case
anymore for Win9x.  It may have been true for early Win95, but
there is no indication of such a possible error condition, and
all MSDN samples don't warn you about it.  In there, there is
a WSASYSNOTREADY error it can return:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=3D/library/en-us/winsoc=
k/wins
ock/wsastartup_2.asp

That is documented to handle the incompatible / lack of DLL
case.  It's a special WSAStartup error mode, so I think it
means we should be OK to clean up tclWinSock.c.

Jeff