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From: Hans-Martin Mosner <hmm@heeg.de>
Subject: Re: [VW 2.0] Sockets with LAN Workplace 4.1 an
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Stephen O'Gallagher wrote:
> 
>  | socket connection stream |
>   socket:= SocketAccessor
>      newTCPclientToHost:'some.tcpip.host'
>      port: 21.
> 
>         ^^^^^
> 
> If Lan workplace is anything like UNIX this is your problem.
> On a UNIX box you need to be root to open a socket with # < 1024
> as this is where all the trusted ( yeh ha!) services are meant to go.
> 
> try another number and see what you get.

No, opening a client to such a reserved port is perfectly ok.
How else are FTP, SMTP et al to work at all ?
I suspect that LAN Workplace or MS-Winsock is at fault, maybe
there's even some interference with win32s 1.25.
Try 1.30 for a start.

Hans-Martin

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