from the VS6 Msdn help:

ActiveX Controls Overview

ActiveX controls (.ocx files) are installed by default when you install Visual FoxPro. 
You can distribute ActiveX controls with your applications.

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MSWinsck.ocx Winsock control Mswnsk98.chm 
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so, jes i think you can include this to your app, to ensure the existance of WinSock. i don't know if all the windows version have it by default.

maybe someone else can jump in to verify that.



>Is this winsock call always successful? I mean, is mswinsock always present?
>
>>try this:

>>ows = createobject("mswinsock.winsock")
>>? ows.LocalIP
>>release ows
>>

>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Does somebody know how i can get the ip of my local computer via vfp ?
>>>
>>>thnx