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diff --git a/win/tclWinInit.c b/win/tclWinInit.c
index 2c21d38..d90d57a 100644
--- a/win/tclWinInit.c
+++ b/win/tclWinInit.c
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ static int ToUtf(const WCHAR *wSrc, char *dst);
*
* TclpInitPlatform --
*
- * Initialize all the platform-dependant things like signals and
- * floating-point error handling.
+ * Initialize all the platform-dependant things like signals,
+ * floating-point error handling and sockets.
*
* Called at process initialization time.
*
@@ -130,20 +130,16 @@ static int ToUtf(const WCHAR *wSrc, char *dst);
void
TclpInitPlatform(void)
{
- tclPlatform = TCL_PLATFORM_WINDOWS;
+ WSADATA wsaData;
+ WORD wVersionRequested = MAKEWORD(2, 2);
- /*
- * The following code stops Windows 3.X and Windows NT 3.51 from
- * automatically putting up Sharing Violation dialogs, e.g, when someone
- * tries to access a file that is locked or a drive with no disk in it.
- * Tcl already returns the appropriate error to the caller, and they can
- * decide to put up their own dialog in response to that failure.
- *
- * Under 95 and NT 4.0, this is a NOOP because the system doesn't
- * automatically put up dialogs when the above operations fail.
- */
+ tclPlatform = TCL_PLATFORM_WINDOWS;
- SetErrorMode(SetErrorMode(0) | SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS);
+ /*
+ * Initialize the winsock library. On Windows XP and higher this
+ * can never fail.
+ */
+ WSAStartup(wVersionRequested, &wsaData);
#ifdef STATIC_BUILD
/*