The Problem
I do not have any personal experience of Turnpike, though I understand it to be much used by Demon users. I'm therefore indebted to Paul Terry for the section at right:
Winsock.dll (or Wsock32.dll to name it's newer brother) is a Windows®' Sockets file which is intimately involved in all Network & Dial-Up Networking (DUN) connections.
Winsock was clearly a very flaky file in win95, as 3rd-party diallers like TurnpikeTM avoided it in favour of it's own file, and even the Windows' designers constantly updated it all the way through both win95 & win98 (the latest version is v2.2).
Unfortunately the early Turnpike winsock was incompatible with the Windows' winsock, so if Turnpike is removed without first reconfiguring to use the system winsock, DUN connections are then impossible. |
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"Versions of Turnpike prior to Version 3.05 were supplied with a winSock made by NTS, which was not fully compatible with the Microsoft winSock that is supplied with Dial-Up Networking.
If you use an old version of Turnpike, you can install Dial-Up Networking and configure Turnpike to use the Microsoft winSock. Alternatively, upgrade to a more recent version of Turnpike, which will install and configure DUN 1.3 for you." |
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