In article 1390599240.54030.YahooMailNeo@web120505.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, bobcolem@yahoo.com says...
I agree it's a C problem. There's seems to be a complication with the winsock and ws2tcpip libraries in Windows 7 and beyond. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a vista machine or MSVC.
It seems there are a number of issues with the 4.8.1-x releases. It's probably best to revert back to 4.7.2 if you do not need 4.8.1 specifics.