# Notes About Windows NT

These are the installation and user notes for the W3C Reference Library and the Line Mode Browser. Any comments and suggestions are welcome at libwww@w3.org.

The NT port is now much better and we can thank Charlie Brooks for this. He has made a README-WinNT describing how to get started. Wissam Y Ali-Ahmed has also made important contributions. See also the notes on Windows

WinSock DLL
  The socket interface is based on a WinSock DLL, preferably a version greater than 1.1.
Dynamic Library (DLL)
  The Library can't compile as a DLL out of the box. It requires some modifications and possibly some minor patches. Please remember to send the patches, so that we can put them in!
Direct WAIS access
  The normal possibility for linking with the WAIS library is not possible on the Windows NT platform. Therefore the WWW Library module HTWAIS must be excluded in the make file.
Memory Model
  The memory model used should be LARGE. This has the limitation that a single data object can't exceed 64K which might cause problems in some situations.
Errno Constants
  WinSock doesn't define the errno constants EWOULDBLOCK etc. on a NT platform in order to avoid clashes with the internal errno constants. We have provided some of the constants in tcp module