On Feb 29, 9:11=A0am, Gio <giovanni_dim...@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Hi, > I'm using an old version of ACUCOBOL (4,3) and would like to open an > IP ****t to read data. > The idea is to write an IP Interface. > Is anybody aware of some samples to do this? > Thanks for your help. Hi, You can use the following APIs to allocate/create/handle Windows sockets and interface with IP ****ts: WSASocket() WSAStartup() bind() listen() WSAConnect() WSASend() WSARecv() WSARecvEx() WSAAccept() DisconnectEx() shutdown() closesocket() WSACleanup() WSAGetLastError() http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/ http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742212(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742213(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737550(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms739168(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741559(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742203(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741688(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741684(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741513(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737757(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740481(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737582(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741549(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741580(VS.85).aspx Kellie.