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winsock




short for: Windows sockets

A technical specification that defines a standard interface between a Windows TCP/IP client application (such as an FTP client or a Gopher client) and the underlying TCP/IP protocol stack. The nomenclature is based on the sockets API model used in Berkeley Unix for communications between programs.


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