Winsock APIs vs TCP OPEN

[Christian McDonald]

I am trying to figure out the best way of handling sockets. From what I can see, there are a few ways of doing this. Which is the best?

Using something like this:

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#INCLUDE "WinSock2.inc"
#INCLUDE "WS2tcpip.inc"


And initiating the Winsock dlls directly or by using the built in TCP OPEN, etc. routines.

[José Roca]

 
PowerBASIC TCP and UDP statements are an easier to use encapsulation of Winsock. In general, PBer's use them unless they need some functionality available only using the API.