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What causes “Winsock Error: address family not supported” when opening a Telnet session in AccuTerm for Windows (16 bit) under Windows 98?

April 26, 2017accuterm address causes Error family opening session supported telnet Winsock

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What causes “Winsock Error: address family not supported” when opening a Telnet session in AccuTerm for Windows (16 bit) under Windows 98?

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This error is usually caused by installing FrontPage 98. To fix the problem, restore the original version of WINSOCK.DLL from your Windows 98 CD (or from another Windows 98 machine which does not have this problem). This file should be in the \Windows directory.